Scream With Me Poem by Montana Svoboda

If I were to scream
Would you scream with me?
About how bad life is,
How there's too many words
And not quite enough of them?

If I were to scream
Would you pretend with me?
That we're all helping each other
In some way or another
And that we're not our own
Self destruct button?

If I were to scream
Would you hold me tight?
If I were to hold you tight
Because we're scared for the other's life
Because we're afraid of what's there
And what's not
Because we're afraid of losing everything
Including each other
With the exception being
Ourselves?

If I were to scream
Would you scream with me?
About Cheer Leading Squads
And the Things That Matter,
About Merchant ships and Western Outlaws?

If I were to scream
If we were to scream
We could scream

'This isn't how life is supposed to be,
Cascading downward
Cascading downward
There's nothing to lose
There's nothing left to lose'

If you were to scream with me
We'd scream until we're whole again