Silence

Innocence

Innocence!

Where did you go?

So sweet,

So naive.

You were once a beautiful gem,

I wore upon my breast.

Proudly once I cuddled you close,

Fed you my hopes and savoured your inspirations.

Now I have seen the light,

Or what lies at the beginning.

You are a dead star,

Whose light I see now,

But is extinguished at its source.

A false hope of something pure,

Like a Unicorn prancing before my eyes.

Oh sweet innocence, how easily you flee,

My aging breast,

I wish I could still hold you close,

Believe in you,

But like the Griffon,

You are banished to the realm of myth.

Oh woe upon the child,

When the scabs upon their eyes does fall

And they see you for what you are,

A lie hidden in the velvet cloth,

Of wishful thinking.

Innocence!

I miss you,

Though you were my comfort blanket,

I clung to in the hopes of a better world.

My sweet dead innocence...