Freak Show
:Ladies and gentlemen
Prepare to be amazed
What I am about to show you
Is like nothing you have ever seen
Today you will witness
Something beyond all imagining
I must warn you
It will change the way you think
About our “normal world”
You never know the secrets hiding in the shadows unseen
I hope you enjoy this show…
I know I will:
I waited behind the curtains
A usual day
Routine
My master promised a huge audience
I know he won’t disappoint
This is what I am
A freak.
I don’t belong anywhere except here
Chased from town to town
I was pushed away from everyone I loved.
They said I was a freak
Unwanted
They said I would cause too much trouble
Hazardous
To risky to keep me alive
So I had to escape
Hide away
Where no one would find me
No one would get hurt
But little did I know…
I would find you
The second I meet you
I fell in love.
You took my hand
And led me away from this life
But magnetically
I was sucked back in
To this freak show
Where I belong.
But even with the danger and risk
You still stay
I need you
And for some unknown and crazy reason
You need me too
This love is destined for disaster
But it’s too late to turn back now
I just need to be more careful.
I hear my master
My signal to come out is given
I walk out head down
I do not want to see their faces
The spot light shines
I look up on them now
The crowd goes silent
They go stiff
Life blows out the room like a swift breeze
The sound of laughter comes from my master
The ring leader
He is pleased by my performance.
I feel a jerk on my shoulder
I flash around
Only to look upon the face of my love
You too go silent
Fall to the ground
Everything that ever mattered
Everything I ever loved
Blew out of the room with the rest of the souls.
I am a freak
I turn to face the now dead crowd
There is no applause
I take my bow.
Copyright © Amanda Sullivan | Year Posted 2010
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