Scream

I got the first line while trying to do homework and had to write it down and I just kept writing from there. I'm sorry it's bad, I wrote it in 5 min.

Scream,
I want to open my mouth and scream,
The sound building louder and louder,
Intensifying,
Rebounding off the walls that confine me,
Shaking the cell like an earthquake. 

Scream,
I need to scream. 
Let all my emotions burst out with the sound,
Feel the pain of my vocal cords,
I need to feel the pain as my voice stretches,
Cracking,
Scratching, 
Screaming. 

Scream,
I'm being torn apart,
Emotions pulling my body in different directions,
Stretching me to my breaking point
As I scream,
My voice climbing higher and higher,
Flying up, searching for a way to escape,
Ramming itself against the barrier that contains it. 

Scream,
I scream and scream,
Trying to be heard but no one hears,
Trying to be seen but no one sees.
As I open my mouth and let out one last, chilling scream,
My body arches up,
Being pulled towards the sky. 
My head tilts back and I'm suspended by my chest as I scream,
My mouth wide open. 
I feel my heart,
Pushing against my ribs, against my skin. 

Scream, 
It rips free,
Tearing out of my body,
Desperate to escape its prison,
As it flies away I look up at it,
Crumpled on the ground in defeat,
No longer screaming. 
Even my heart gave up on me,
It knew I couldn't be saved. 
Never again will I scream,
My heart took my last scream.

Author's Note

What do you think of the idea or of the poem? Anything I can change/improve? Did anything interest you? Do you have any feedback or comments in genral? Thanks for reading this!

Reviews

[Kent Smotherman]

I think it is a wonderful theme, and very well expressed - even if it only took you 5 minutes! I can feel the catharsis in this, and that can be a difficult emotion to depict well. I do have to admit that I don't understand the very last line, however - but that might just be me. :)

[EvilIsRelative]

I see the theme of this as just the need to let all of that pent up emotion out, that need to be heard. I think you expressed it very well.

[CHRIS ANDES]

i like it just as it is
=]

[Isabelle Faye]

Thank you.