Ignorance is Bliss (To Those Who've Felt It)
Laugh
Scorn
Ridicule
But my freedom you will never take
Drag me to my feet by broken arms
kick me while my heart is broken
but the light in my eyes will shine
For these eyes have seen the depths of hell
These eyes know what it means to grow
What it means to live
As children these thoughts often evade us
For we have found the bliss in ignorance
One we come to miss as we grow
But these eyes know no ignorance
They don't remember a moment of that sweet bliss
that rained from the clouds above to wash the pain away
the rain that blessed every child
Except for me
Every night the rain would pour
but all I saw were the storms
The strike of lightning against the blood stained windows
booming thunder shaking these broken walls until they
crumbled at my feet
Instead of ignorance
l spent hours in a closet
listening to the crack of my father's ribs
The screaming of restless winds straining
against this houses’ once sturdy foundatation
Pulling it apart brick by brick until all that was left
was a broken man who had nothing else to give
Defeated
Fallen to his knees
he watched as his children were taken
the children who will come to blame only him
Tears burned in the back of his eyes
tears he wouldn’t dare show
because then she’d know
She’d know he’s paralyzed
screaming behind the cage of metal bars
begging for their lives
And she’d hurt them
Just to see the pain on his face
His children wail
Sob
But he can’t save them
For in the end
the winds had won
With hopeful arms I reach to him
hoping he’d remember a daughter’s touch
But he crumbled apart in my fingers
He lies as an empty shell now
Dust
Dragged by broken arms
Humiliated
Scorned
Ridiculed
Forgotten
I realized I was alone
and inorance has deserted me