Screams
November 17, 2001
LJA
The demons scream within my head
In dream images
Ledgers disguised in human form
They scream unworthiness
Each thing I ever asked a monument
Although only a crumb
Each thing I do
A murder trial
Tried on circumstantial evidence
My voice cries out to stop them
That finds me guilty
To make them see how small the cost
To make them see the crime
Is not as they accuse
But they don't listen
And their voices have power
To curl me to the floor
A fetal child circled into self
I am undone
Reaching for a strength
She cannot find
And she who watches gives not aid
I do not know why she is there
Is she the judge? The executioner?
The silent witness giving credence
To their cries?
Speak, silent one!
Don't leave me here alone!
Could you, is there any chance
I wake into the silence
You just might be here for me?
Of an empty room
Frantic for someone to hold
Some voice to still the screaming
In my brain
There is no answer from the silent walls
I am alone within this prison
Of my skin
Condemned to silence by the echoes
Of a life once dead
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