SILENT WITNESS

“Don't judge the gentle; their gentleness is stronger than your fears and angers. Don't judge those who have lost their gentleness; you haven't lived their lives. In all people, hope for the gentleness to return and see gentleness for the beauty that it is.”

 

― C. JoyBell C.

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbmXvBJhCs

DUST TO DUST – THE CIVIL WARS

 

THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

 

When the air is filled with acrid smoke

and filling up your lungs

you try to breathe

but cough and choke

fall breathless down on Autumn leaves

this was the fire to end all fires

it took so much away

memories and photographs

things you can't replace

images burned into my mind

imprinted on my heart

like scars and tears of sacrifice

for all those who depart

how many fires does one man have

how many times must the phoenix start

to rise from ashes; dust to dust

stitching back the pieces

the homespun quilted, tattered rags

singed and worse for wear

somehow mean so very little

now there's no-one there

I lost it all again, you see

not once, but many times

I wonder that I'm here at all

I wonder what it means

that many people want me gone

so many let me suffer

small as I am

I wait in darkness

clothed in sackcloth

barefoot gashes

where the glass cut through my flesh

was cauterised and crashing now

through thick, neglected undergrowth

I run in any direction

I have to get away from here

avoid the resurrection

I think I'll hide for longer this time

I think no-one will notice

a small girl hiding in the darkness

closed mind now like a lotus

waiting for the sun to shine

wait in vain for peace of mind

to carry me from the darkest past

where I can be a child at last.

Who will believe the child in me

some don't believe me still

What will it take for them to believe

that everything I am and say is real ...

 

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My artwork is a compilation of 4 of my photographs

 

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