Have You Been Told?

Have you been told that your breath reeks

The scent of blood

From the hearts that you've chewed and spit

With the scarlet juice dripping down your chin

Have you smelt how your hands smell like

Rusted metal 

From the wrists that you've forced to slit

Spilling the vermilion on washroom tiles

Have you been told how glassy your eyes are

Seeing only Greys

Yet dictating where the rainbows shine

Shattering colours that you don't even see

Have you been told how your skin has wrinkled

From the frowns 

That simply don't understand love

Breaking minds hidden in closets

Have you felt the burden of your sins

The weight of the children

You took from their kin

With the souls that haunt your bedside 

Have you not been told that

No pilgrimages aren't soap

That rinse out hands that have gotten dirty

The river waters you seek 

Sadly, don't flow with bleach

Where you drown yourself in 

And come out clean.

The Warning Bells Are Ringing

"Close your eyes"
they put their fingers across my eyes,
"Its not there if you can't see it." 
they whisper in my ears.

"Hush now don't say that" 
they say as they slowly part my lips,
"You don't need that anymore"
I hear the sound of their scissors snipping.

Snip snip

My tongue is gone.

I flail around helplessly,
They can't do this to everyone,

Someone will see,
Someone will speak,

But wait, can they?

This is wrong, this is unfair.

The warning Bells are ringing, loud and clear.

The warning Bells are ringing, can't they hear?

Everything will fall apart.

The kingdom they are building,
with the fragile bricks of perfection 
and the cement of their propaganda,
Won't last long in the storm that is brewing.

The warning bells are ringing, loud and clear.

The warning bells are ringing, can't they hear?