Saturday, July 15, 2017

If i could un know some things

Warning :
Graphic and violent

I would un know first of all
The little boy who had
Acquired some puppies
Was not allowed to keep them
And so volunteered to
Dispose of them himself
Tied it to the end of a rope
And wailed as he pulled it

I would un know
His excitement as he got the puppies
And then his disappointment
And then his self inflicted torture
And then the fact that he had
No grown up who loved him enough
To do it for him,
Or attempt to shield him
From so much trauma

And then i would un know
The realization that this was
Just a regular day for him
And his life bereft of affection
Held horrors far greater

And finally i would forget for ever
That his world lives besides mine
And the two worlds never intersect
Unless i choose to
(Which i usually don't)
And that he and scores
no, hundreds,
no, thousands
ok, innumerable
people walk around with
stones for hearts
weighed down by terrible memories
that they will never speak of
being unused to affection

If i could un know all of this
I wouldn't have to make the effort
Of masking overlooking whitewashing

How peaceful i would be then

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