Walking down the aisle
unflawed
As far as the eye could see

Smiling
Sorrow rolling down her cheeks
wretchedly mistaken
as joy

Underneath her dress
Lay blotches of hurt
Baffling bruises
given to her

He promised her happiness
She had no choice
But to believe

belief turned into hope
hope turned into begging
begging turned into bittersweet regret

she remembers that place
where her feelings
weren’t a displeasure

she screams
hoping, wishing, desperate
for someone
anyone
to look up

and take her
somewhere
anywhere

away from that home she built
away from what she had no control over
away from that alter where her mistake stood waiting for her