a_broken_frame Poetry (6)

I can't believe what I am seeing
Ego burned into my eyes
You say that love is in the making
All I hear is a bevy of lies
A twist of shadows hidden in truth
A host of apathy as your proof
Bring me to the slaughter house
I've begged you so many times
Taste the bitterness inside me
Still you continue to commit the crime

Can you ever forgive me
For the things you've done
A fistful of anger
To block out the sun
Blind my eyes so I can't see
Make me deaf and set me free

"It'll kill the core" I know you've said
"If one leaves the rest are dead"
Now all I hear are fake transmissions
And all I see are new acquisitions
Falling in place like a pawn on a board
Picking up parts that were already scored

Can you ever forgive me
For the things you've done
A fistful of anger
To block out the sun
Blind my eyes so I can't see
Make me deaf and set me free

...And she came dancing
From the cupboard, shattered dreams
Biggest eyes, brightest smile
Brushing dust away
Remnants of domesticity
She danced, She twirled
Before my eyes

In the air
Notes
A duet for Mother and child
Cascading down, filling my ears
My mind wanders to the question:
What might have been?
The pain of wasted tears

She
She is trying
She is trying not to cry

Wiping sleep out of your mind
Rising early every morn
From the closet of the duties of a good wife
You take the mask you wore
The day before

In the air
Steps
A dance for Mother and child
Trickle down, drowning my eyes
My mind wanders to hope
What is yet to come?
To the answer to all the "whys?"

She
She is trying
She is trying not to cry

Won't you ever see
Can't stand to taste your pain
Words drip off my tongue
In my nostrils, rain
Drops feel
Like footseps
Sounding in the cloisters

If you should ever find yourself
Your heart upon a shelf
Push pride aside
Let me find the woman deep inside
That you've hidden, carefully
Behind jars
Broken
Promises
Lies

She
She is trying
She is trying not to cry

Softly sparkle your lips
As I taste your sweet kiss
Honey dripping off my tongue
As breaks the morning sun
Engulfed in your splendor
Your body does render
Me senseless
A puppet
To your love

Sitting alone again
In this house filled with tears
Sitting alone again
Enveloped in my fears
Staring at your blank face
Wondering what to say
Are there any words in me
That could make this go away

Sitting alone again
You across the room
If I were to speak right now
Would it be too soon?
With every glance I toss at you
This moment lingers on
Everytime I think of what to say
I turn and you are gone

If I fell apart
Would you put me back together?
If I lost my way
Would you find me?

So, here I sit alone again
I finally know what I should say
But here I sit alone again
With you a thousand miles away
Will I ever find my way back to you,
Has this path come to it's end?
Do we even have the strength in us
To find a way to mend?

If I fell apart
Would you put me back together?
If I lost my way
Would you find me?

I don't know what to say
As you turn away
Glance over your shoulder
A precarious display
Of your back and face
You look puzzled
I begin to speak
My story sounds bleak
Confused
Words misused
I fumble for clues
To what you are feeling

We walk among the ruins
Of our childish games
We talk about the world
I know will never be the same
Again
I feel this sorrow
Riddled with endless shame
I'll never be the same

The cure for my Illness
Lies
In the touch of your skin
Your body reassures me
I still don't know
Where to begin
I give in
To this lust
Welling inside
As you shed your disguise

We walk among the ruins
Of our childish games
We talk about the world
I know will never be the same
Again
I feel this sorrow
Riddled with ruthless pain
I'll never be the same

The sorrow I face
Reeks of "Arsenic and Old Lace"
I try to retrace
Where our love went wrong
You look puzzled
I begin to speak
My story sounds bleak
Confused
Words misused
I fumble for clues
To what you are feeling

Cigarettes, porcelain cups
Your coffee always filled with ashes
Like the sorrow in our childrens hearts
If we don't rectify their trembling
Your mind will never rest at ease
Nor your future hold success
If we don't learn from our mistakes
Doomed to repeat them
Over and over again

We need a rescue
We need a rescue

We all walk along this road
One foot after the other
The prints of our feet
Slowly fade away with time
Leaving a legacy for our babies
A legacy of right or wrong
We choose to set our eyes on the rising sun
Or let the day slip on it's night

We need a rescue
We need a rescue