pain

Worse than words
Splattered across
Frozen floors and battered
Walls.
Not a single word
Escapes your bitter mouth
Scowls forming on
Crooked notes.

Smiles and laughs
Ruined
By ruthless eviction notices
Crawl inside like
Parasites
And scrounge at already
Broken lives.

Lies and truths
Strewed into heartless
Facades, produced to
Insinuate hatred, rage.

Cold brutal stares
Frighten young
Boys
Barricaded by
Hagged watchkeepers
Watching
Waiting
Until you step one foot wrong
And bang
Silence.

Eerie silence,
Worse than nightmares
Of massacres and murders
Of snakes and spiders
Of bickers and brutality
The war we face
Is faced at home
And so I cower
All alone.