Alcadia

You can't erase what you've already seen

Try as you might, its always gonna be there

Etching pain into your now, like a present from the past 

Filled with half hidden faces, and mistaken thank yous,

Apologies, and praises of trials overcome.

I know it sounds strange, but I saw them change

And now its too late to erase it

Or painstakingly place the blame

On someone else's half hidden faces

My feet ran fast on dirt pavement 

Ran fast for what my eyes had seen

And for my mother and sisters, now so unholy.

 I came to a house in the woods made of stone

It sat old and lonely like bones by the lakeside 

I have been here before

But that was yesterday's daydream

I remember you cried for the one who lay

 thump footed once

Now soft and sodden by the rocks

But you didn't care that the dogs Who had chased it

Were now long gone

Drowned by the tides

And the time

And their tempers 

Or the tempest

The clandestine stacks fell like whips on my back

And I arched like a bow, but no arrows were shot

I heard in this moment

You break down the door

My tears turned to fears

And my tears were no more

I ran again for my mind, my sisters, my life

And for their lives too;

Confined by the walls they assembled themselves

For another ones need of the feed of the flesh

I ran no more for my mother

Because she lay in the grave with the wolves

Her demise caused not by the tide nor the time nor her temper 

A cold shoulder perhaps.. In the midst of the tempest?

I don't know what to make of it.

Sun up to sun down 

And then back around

She lay with their bodies

Her eyes open just enough to see

 the teeth which had killed her  

But just shy of seeing us-

Her daughters,

Crying in the light.