Retribution.

[rewiiired]

Don't avert your eyes.
Seek retribution for this scene,
try to procure an elixir.

So delicate and defenseless,
he whines like a wounded animal,
quivering and vulnerable,
a child weakened by the winds
of circumstance.

Bring the light down,
breathe life back into this.
Re-own what lies behind
yet rustles down below,

calling out to you in desperation
for even a minute amount of recognition,
holding you back, dragging,
wearing you down.

Just pause to embrace this.
Let it flow through,
then let it go, let it go,

let it all rain down
to heal wounds and break skipping records,
to evaporate the pain.

No one needs to know,
no one needs to know what died there,
no one needs to know the tales ghosts tell through you,
no one needs to know but you.

And no one else can bring on the silence.