Tortured Man of Screams
Oh, tortured man of screams
I heard your piercing screeches from a far
Smelt that moldy wooden bridge as it creaked
As you held your hollow cheeks in your palm
On the path you’d traversed, two shadows haunted you so
Were they the beast of your past,
The golden flood you’d unleashed on the itsy-bitsy spider of a town
Or the sky you’d burned a raging Bloody Mary
Was that dark current a salty river of your sorrow
O! the horror that could not be undone
Determined to flee, why did you falter in your step
What dreadful thing slit your lips apart,
Bulged your eyes to saucers
Was it the absence of curls, ringlets, and locks
When you grasped a smooth skull
That unsettled your soul
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