Poetics

She fled
the house of abuse and horrors,
into the promise
of a new sunrise.
 
Hopes shattered,
she was plunged deeper
into the scorching heat–
from one level of hell to another.
 
She stabs
into the visceral, deep-red silence
of the heart
for a moment of final release.

*the title and the poem are a reference to the tragic triad mentioned in Aristotle's Poetics.