by Alec Machet

Created on: November 04, 2007

Scared To Say

One more day passes slowly
And another hour dies
I rest my head in my hands
And wait
Time stops
And I wonder why
I'm still alive

The empty room,
It's silence broken
I look up and I smile
This dark, abandoned, lonely place
Is lighted by her eyes

She comes and sits down next to me
And asks when it will begin
I nudge her gently on the chin

And the screen lights
And picture fades

And the words across it say:

Act One...

Storm clouds gather in the sky
A bloodied face
A crying eye
Wordless exchange from boy to girl
They turn away and leave
Their eyes in tears
Abandoned fears
For wanting what was theirs

Washed the cuts out from his cheek
He falls to the ground, his body weak
And holds his churning stomach tight
To keep from fading out
A short cry escapes his throat
As he pulls up to his feet
He sees his eyes in the mirror
And finds them hollowed

He turns around to see
An unfamiliar, smiling face
Who tells him to come along,
There's no point why he should stay

So where he's taken
Fears are shown
His limbs distended
His sadness grown

A downed path to destruction
Awaits him at the end
Where clutched along the path
His eyes roll back and limbs go slack

Intermission reads the glowing screen
Before it fades to black
I turn to her for a short and friendly chat

I didn't expect to see you here
I thought it might be good

The critics had nothing good to say
But, hey, that's Hollywood

Act Two...

Fade in a saddened poet
With a pen clutched in her hand
Another empty stanza
Gets thrown into the can

Fingers run along the paper
And she heaves another sigh
She just can't seem to find the words

She lies down on her bed
And wonders where she went wrong
Was she too wrapped up in worry
To see where she belonged?

So she fades into a dream,
But is soon jolted awake
She looks outside her window
And the moonlight hits her face

She knows now what she really wants
As she pulls herself from bed
She throws on a coat
And makes her way to the door

The buildup's quite suspenseful
I find myself in awe

And the direction's very artful
I wonder how it ends

Act Three...

The rain is pouring down now
The blood pours from his mouth
He opens up to scream
But no words are coming out

She comes across his lifeless body
And falls down to her knees
She drags him into shelter
And brushes out his hair

For one more breath he breathes,
And looks into her eyes
And as he fades away
They both begin to cry

She returns back to her home,
And soon withdrawals a knife
She plunges into her chest
And with her last breath whispers "Why?"

The lights fade up
The curtain's drawn
We stand to leave the room

At the door we stop
We exchange one last embrace
Goodbyes are said

I wanted then to tell
Everything I felt
But instead I lost the nerve
Again

I say tomorrow will be different
I say I'll tell her then
But I know it'll be just like today
And I'll hate myself again

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