Decades past
and decades passed
and still
fear chokes the brain
uncertainty slowly
becomes absolute certainty
and the voices
behind my ears
scream always the
ever so polite obscenities to my soul
until
all that is
all that was
and all that can be heard
is the deafening panic
of indoctrination
into the grayness
of their world of fear

April Wells
March 29, 2016