Diluted pupils <br />Stare and burn holes in the sky <br />Ragged breath rips the air and silence <br />I crumble where I lay. <br /> <br />Eternity scrapes across my face. <br />Chapped lips beg silenced prayers <br />Stuck fast, hopelessly to ruin and waste <br />I am an eroding ignominy. <br /> <br />Like ice I stick, frozen, dead. <br />Bend my fingers and watch them splinter <br />Icicles should scatter, a litter of glittering heads <br />I am wet flesh stuck to an icy bed. <br /> <br />Put to slumber I never dream <br />But watch and watch and watch the revolting heavens <br />Incapable of ripping myself apart, <br />I’ve become an eternal creep. <br /> <br />I thought once <br />That I should never bear myself, <br />With an enduring sanity <br />And perhaps I haven’t <br />Who I ask would endure this bitter hell? <br /> <br />And only now does the sun come, <br />Only now do the scales melt from my hand <br />Like gleaming frost in the morning light <br />Perhaps now, when it does not matter, <br />Can I stand.<br /><br />Graham Stone<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-silent-scream-screeched-across-eternity/
