• There are no words to express
    The feelings that overwhelm me
    When thunderbolts of understanding come.
    The shutter snaps
    Locking out the light
    And locking me inside.
    A vision of another time
    Another place.
    A little boy standing
    Sunbeams on his shoulders.
    brilliant in sight.
    Lovingly painted and made to dry.
    The Sunbeams darken to Shadows
    The boy kneels
    Hands are tied
    Twisted mercilessly
    Tighter and tighter
    The Blood locked out
    The Cold locked in
    All the while
    A Burning heat blazes inside
    Pleasure and Pain
    Combined
    The Cold and Heat
    Living in one little body
    Who can't escape
    "No! Don't touch me!" he cries
    The shutter snaps
    And the burning blaze
    Brightens
    Breath gets shallow
    And it's oh so heavy
    The weight is so heavy
    Quietly
    He slips away
    Locked inside
    Where no one can reach his coldness
    Or his heat.
    They don't realize he is not there
    He has gone to where it is warm
    And dry
    And dark
    The shutter is closed
    And he is blind in darkness
    No one knows
    And no one cares.