Skeletons

Skeletons

clawing, cackling, clinking sounds,
grinding down the closed off realms,
I heard the tapping, trappings, and more,
hiding within that damning door,
scratching, howling, hissing too,
afraid to look – lurking under my shoe(s)!
my clothes covered those cowering things,
that ratted and tatted and shredded my being!

I sat shaking, on the edge of my bed,
battling those things that pounded my head,
they rattled and tattled and coaxed out fear,
they blamed, accused, mutilated, and seared,
watching silently; while they lurched for my frame,
trying to grab me – those boney; trepidatious THINGS!
engulfed, consumed, filled with lies,
the tears they fell, I was unsure why,
my own salt scalded my flesh – it burned!
churning and boiling; my sin? I sat spurned.
I listened, as the voices swallowed my heartbeat –
sucked in unison , they were too much to defeat

the creaking, wrenching, quivering door,
shook, it trembled and beckoned –
threatened! to let it be torn,
the hinges banged, they clicked, unnerved,
underneath the space blackness was perturbed,
the skeletons dug and scraped; they rang out,
I’ll get you my pretty, you’ll be exposed in MASS amount!

breathless and tormented I could see the creeps,
peering through the key hole,
to terrify me in leaps,
as I sank my head into my hands,
covered my ears, waiting for death,
a violence erupted out of control,
my tears took on an entity all of their own,
they covered the floor and thrust open the door,
they ripped it down and wailed,
“We’ll take it NO MORE!”

the battled went on all through the night,
the tears pulled each piece out in full sight!
broken and scattered for the whole room to see,
the closet no longer hid what bound me!
I picked up a femur and thrust all my angst,
onto each skeleton piece that I faced,
they burst to ashes,
they screamed in pain,
AND I told them once and for all,
“I am DONE with your games!”

the moment was settled,
the war was won,
light consumed darkness,
and fears that secrets forlorned,
to my dismayed relief,
I did find –
the skeletons; were only shames I tried to hide,
they vanished, when I realized –
I was causing my own demise …

{whisper, whisper softly;
and you will hear the skeletons are nothing to fear}

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