...Compulsion 6 Poem by RIC BASTASA

you say you will not do it
never again
this sickness this sickening thing
inside you

you smile
you breathe
your stomach begins to deliver a speech
this cannot be
denial, denial, denial of the natural color of your hair
one that blends
with your skin
one that speaks the words that your tongue
has been keeping

the one that you hide
and pretend it is not there
it grows
and becomes big and so visible

you knife it out
never shall it heal
this wound this life
this is what you are
and ever shall be

forever, and yet you keep it hidden
funny, because they are all seeing it
and speaking about it

it seems, you are the only one
mute, deaf, blind and so dumb