Is this pain in my head? I can’t have fallen; now I see I’ve always been here In this pit, so why the ache I feel from impact on this Hard and dusty ground? I must have flung myself Repeatedly against it—only That explains my battered, bruised And bloodied body: I my own tormentor. April 23, 2006 Washington, D.C. Age 25 © Talya Sara Emery Sign in to see full entry.