Declaration of Damnation

Let their ears ring

And gush ruby rivers,

With every whisper

From friends and family

Whose words will always abrade.

Let their voice tremble

And quiver and fracture

Each syllable a struggle

So instead they keep their words

Inside their head, may they mumble.

Let their stomach knot

And twist with confusion

The exclusion of their kind

In their mind it burrows

As the elephant begins to mock.

Let them know

What blood running cold

Does to a flowering bud.

Let me double this ache

Make them take and take and take.