"Listen" by Gabriel Moore

Listen, you freak!
That word is everywhere.
No one can help you get away from it.
There is a way to escape from a monster or a madman.
But there is no escaping THAT word.
They laugh, their voices tumbling and bursting out of their mouths like a river.
It may as well be a wildfire.
Your skin burns away like a dead leaf;
Peeling and snapping as their jeers ensnare you with barbed wire.
You try and squirm free, but the metal digs in more and more.
Tearing ragged holes in your flesh.
If you stop moving, the pain will increase tenfold, building up in your heart.
As you twist and turn, the pain becomes unbearable. Then you come to a realization.
There IS a way to escape!