Succumb

Speak - no one will know. No one must know.

Succumb

Each breath draws blackened ash.
Each soot plagues weeping eyes.
Each plague destroys.
Kills.

Serpents wrap ‘round a slender waist.
Too often it bites.
Too often it hungers.

Vomiting, newborn blood spills forth,
held not back by broken dam.
Cry - No one will listen.
Speak - No one will know.
No one must know.

Tears mean naught.
Words fall from silent lips.
Walls hide nothing.
All that matters flows forth
By the jagged haunting of intoxicated mind.

Scream.
Cry.
I shall laugh.
You will succumb.