A Lamentation

Performers ©2012 Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle

This is no laughing matter,
This thing that I feel.
It is real.

It is as dark as the smile
Unseen in your eyes,
Or the sighs

Sealed forever inside me.
Secret words that I know
But won’t show

Seethe in despair in my soul.
These I must spare you.
It is true.

I am a timorous clown
Now caged in a shell.
This is Hell.