secrets

 
I tried to swallow the pain of the past
drink by drink
all the evil little secrets
year after year
until madness drank my soul
and I had nothing left

I forgot for awhile about justice
there would be none for us
we sat quietly in the white noise
where the red tape had silenced

a bureaucratic nightmare
an agency with too much power against us
left nude in the cold we withered
in the cruel glare of the government
we didn't matter

our hurt pulse inside of me
with each beat of my heart
a foulness permeated
where was truth?
where was what is right is right?
where was justice for me and my children?

swept under the rug
so a man with a shiny reputation
could stay shiny
we had no armor to protect
we stood naked to be judged
afraid and shaken we stood alone
our family in shatters

we died with our secrets
while our forlorn. hollow thoughts walk on