Theme: PAIN - PIERCING THE PAINTED VEIL

PIERCING THE PAINTED VEIL

by Scarlett Ho 6U

Words uncensored of thy exasperated throes,

Onwards my heart thuds with exacerbated woes.

Aloft the veil a painted face of joviality adorned;

Soft cries beneath it an ascendant ambiguity embroiled.

Slowly a crack well preserved by circumspect,

Surreptitiously reveals nuggets of introspect,

Of condemned chagrin, chastisement, chasm;

Mortification overshadowed to a parvenus spasm.

Swords of needles piercing; tears of rivers shedding,

Chords of sympathy of hope like a path threading,

narrowing, closing, concealing to a life harrowing.

Screeching screams, crumbling cries of a life adhering.

With hearts aching by the scarlet hellfire,

By words scorching as if by blades of icy fire;

Send mind bursting with a poignant past-

And all this became the past!