Hold Me Down
Have you seen it?
Have you clawed your way in?
Or have your gods
and your demagogues
Coerced you?
Well, are you breathing?
Or still imitating
the life that you crave?
Took you by the wrists,
Led you away,
And its strange,
In subtle, sneaky ways,
it has held onto me,
impending violence in the haze,
Skin on skin,
stained glass and ivory,
Insisting that you stay,
if just for the memory,
But the silence never fades,
Just keep it together,
and this too shall pass,
as it settles in your mind,
and you’re prone to relapse,
Dream now,
Headstrong,
Toss and turn,
Something isn’t right,
You’ve been infected
by a strange energy,
So hush now,
Baby girl,
Sewn shut,
Pressure holds
You softly in his arms,
to rock you back to sleep,
Now go back to sleep
(2014)
