'No Tears To Weep'

This poem is one of a pair.  It's companion poem is called "Heard". ----------------------------- She paints her face to go out at night Thick black sticky on lips of white Steps out and looks at the moonlit sky Shadowed eyes catch the rain And down her face the tears she cannot cry Longcoat collar pulled close around her cheeks Another lonely walk down the bleeding street If she screamed into the sky like a raging sea And shouted no one would hear her If she shouted "Can anyone hear me" "Why can't anyone hear me" "I don't want time to play this game I've played it and it's still the same I've been around and back again And still there's still this bitter pain That sits so still In my heart it's the only thing that's really real It's all I feel" People all around so far away Can't face the light, can't face the day She buries herself in a writhing crowd She likes to go where the music is so loud But it's still not loud enough To blow her lonely lonely lonely mind away "A hundred thousand days and nights A hundred thousand stupid lights Just shoot my world to outer space Where they won't hear me scream or see my face Where it's all so black and all so strange It won't be a change I'll just sink into myself and sleep" Forever inside... no tears to weep Written December 14th, 1994 © on Mar 01 2002 01:24 PM PST   18 • 0 • 1