Carnival Poem by Katerina Val

Through escape they shall catch you
through your vein they can finally reach you
quickly, withdraw all your weird dark sides, hide them back inside
quickly, get back control
before they find it too and before they find the dark inside your soul

Through the carnival of laughs it is you they can tease
and through the carnival of brains it is you they will try to teach
so that they can hold the keys
don't open up your mind, please, they' ll never reach you
act like you care, be the Pantaloon of their final act
pretend, but don't give to them the right to be the end

End of the story?
No, not the time you step into my territory
in the straw bed, there I lay, I order the rules
and if it is about another brick to break
I' ll take the burden of the pain

Twist around and dance in the carnival of hearts
if I have to tear me up, I' ll take the rage and all this stuff
agree to light your soul in the carnival of hearts
and act

You are not the one that killed the silence
you are not the one that turned gold into dust
you are not the one that freed this promiscuous carnival
this sickened ritual, the act of hearts
but you can be the one to free, of one broken, the cold surrendered heart
you are not the one that forgot how to laugh
they, they are
the ones to not get what you call "holder of the dark"
so, push them away, cut them deeper
in the carnival.