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Silent Venom
March 13, 2019
Two small pricks, invisible to the human eye
Blood, deep red as the horizon, pours out internally
Oh the pain, how it surges up my neck, tighter in grasp
The words pound through my head
Yet, fall short to soft silence at the tip of my tongue
The struggle, once intense, now slowly fading into nothing
Face turns purple, wounds grow darker than a midnight sky
Pain now visible, but never felt
The snake had no wrongdoing, but natural instinct
For the real killer, was mental poison
© Kimber E., Yorktown, VA
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I want this poem to be seen because it is mental health awareness and I think it could really help teenagers. The snake represents society and how people think that society is the one hurting people, but it is really the individual that does it to themselves.