The Softest Song, the Loudest Truth
The child painted black
Lips shudder as his thoughts
were sketched in tears again,
devouring memories as if
they were drugs of choice...
He opens his mind with shards
of mirrored insecurity as
the reflection distorts and
fades into his own bruised shivering skin;
Screams flood the ears of
the deaf, falling upon nothing but
silence and decay, he tries to
run from himself but the path has been
riddled with fear and cradled in
flames of childhood picture frames;
In his mind their throats unlock
to reveal a million secrets from
tongues drenched in a sea of
years spent carving their names in
hollow bitter roots; The stems
of time grew like cancer in the womb,
giving birth to a stench so rotten
even the flies dare not enter it's grasp...
He repeats the words...
"why did you paint me this way"
over and over until his voice cracks within soiled speech;
Daddy was an engineer of broken dreams,
forcing venom into the veins of clean canvas as
he picked the stars from the
sky to craft a pitch black sonnet of shadows
Night crumbles,
Footsteps freeze frame motion...
stairs creak in fear...
He's here, He's here!
Enter sandman...
Under the sheets he claws the soft
white innocence, blood shot eyes linger
towards restless heart beats and glimmers of
hope... Yet hope is shattered by an all
familiar scent of stomach churning
whiskey breath clinging tightly to
every bead of sweat trying to escape
the forehead of sadistic pleasure;
A stampede of fists charge at cliffs of bed covers,
falling off the edge of reason and snapping
shaking bones in half... silence is only broken
by breathless throats dying to scream a thousand
melodies of truth... Drunken stance,
a whisper pulsates deep into the unconscious
atmosphere, it rings out... "I only do it because
I love you, this will make you a man!"
Quiet, soft melodic chord change...
over at last, sleeping in red carpet blues,
The softest song, the loudest truth