Flashback

flashes of memories come crashing by
like a wave that drowns a soul
sinking to the bottom of the sea
your eyes are wide open
yet it feels like a dream
more like a nightmare
but its more non-fiction than fantasy
flashes of light that blind you
a time machine back to a wretched time
that you’d soon just forget
haunting your dreams
stealing your fate
trapped in a time riddled full of sorrow
caged in an illusion
screaming won’t do
no one is there to hear the noise
surrounded by a room full of mirrors
a funhouse filled full dagers
piercing and cutting you in half
your life flashes right in front of you
like looking at a photo album covered in thorns
ripping at your heart
draining you dry
blood stained chard’s of glass only remain
remnants of what could have been
what should have been
who was that ghost boy that haunts you
follows you every where you venture
hiding won’t do
because he is always there
tears drip dry from his pale, sad face
only a hole in the middle of his chest remains
and blood stained little hands
you reach out, to only have him fade away
could he have went home
but his heart is missing
and he can’t go home without it
how can he tell you where to find it,
when words escape him in gasps of air?
a lost little boy
tormented by the chains that drag him
with each action the daggers dig even deeper
silent he remains there waiting
try as you might to close your eyes, he still remains there
a ghost of lost innocence’s
he longs to play again
but his playground is now filled full of perversions
empty hopes of the sick
he wanders among the zombies
trying not to awake their restless souls
the boy tips toes past them
the devil kept him from his mother
filled him with deceit
transplanted veins that drip full of lies
love has turned into hate
the little boys been hung out to dry
in a world turned upside down
we’re desperate to fill that aching hole that’s been punched through our chest
but no amount of caulk will fill that emptiness
it is that exact moment
that you realize that the ghost has always been you