Subdued Emotion Poem by Rebecca Pepper

Never once forgot your eyes
The colour so vivid and alive
Shattered by their evil lies
Now hiding is how you survive

There’s something lost
In those lonely tears
There’s a high cost
Placed by your peers

But it’s your childish smile
That lights the way
Finding it took a while
Now you show it every day

Even in that smile there is pain
Something hidden deep inside
Like tears in the frozen rain
Tears hidden in a heart so kind

Once saw a cage clear as day
Now she sees nothing, so blind
The words she just can’t say
Words her soul can’t find

The doors open but fears there
No courage to make the first move
No friend to help her prepare
She has no emotions to prove

As cold as the iron that bound
Burned by the warmth of the sun
Screaming without a sound
No instinct telling her to run