I Solemnly Swear
I wish I could warn you
But I know that my warning would only fall
from the tips of your ears to the ground.
I am left to watch you unravel before my eyes.
If only you’d listen.
Inside I am begging you to hear my unspoken plea,
fall from my lips
but you choose not to hear.
Nor do you ask.
So I never tell
and we both know.
You question but you never truly ask.
No, instead you question. You question questions
without ever asking
the answers you do not want to know.
Instead you choose to fill the silence with crass laughter.
Balancing on the edge
Invincible, untouchable
you think of yourself.
When the fire snaps at you,
suffocating the air,
choking your breath,
biting your throat with the lick of its flames,
you will wither.
Shriveled to dust.
“Nah, it’s just innocent fun.”
-you say.
But how is it innocent when you have to make excuses for the actions
you commit?
Do you need to justify innocence?
No. Innocence does not need defense.
I am forced to stand here
with your finger pressed against my lips.
Silence.
Their words are stale, stemmed from foolishness and ignorance.
They do not feed your hunger.
So why do you keep going back?
Unfulfilled.
Why do you search, boy, when you’ve already discovered?
Why have you forgotten who you are?
I dread the day when you wake up and ask
“Who am I?”
I’ve known all along.
Even worse, the day when you question,
“Why would I care?”
You’re loosing yourself
drenched in your lukewarm and apathetic demeanor.
You are unraveling before my eyes.
I am a co-conspirator
in the death of your life
I am a witness
to the mockery of who you were.
No, I will not speak.
I cannot utter a single word,
I solemnly swear.
I pray that one word will escape my lips
and echo in your mind;
SPEAK.
