Fractured Prism

A complaint against affection
A shuttering of the truth
A shutting out of who we are
A mirror of uncouth

We swallow vials of poison

Claiming we alone are well

Medicate against humanity
Fragile egos swell

We bicker and blame each other
for being quite ill-informed
“How could you be so stupid, fool”
conceit loudly stormed

Yet, under the vain pretensions
We sniff pungency of hell
Our mass fears excuse mass horrors
Alienation
swells

We snap, the prism fracturing,
forgetting just to be kind
To offer tea and time and “Hey,
you’re in my heart and mind.”

Convictions become transparent
— splitting lies we’ve held so dear —
when we angle the mirror so,
letting the truth appear

We lost the collective rainbow,
Grasped our barbed and spiky shard
Cast shadows at our enemies,
the better parts of we

As we set circumstance to bed
— cede the achromatic chill —
We must re-centre dignity,
descend that jagged hill

Re-embrace our funhouse colours,
relight luminescent hearts
A crystal-clear kaleidoscope
to fix our wounded parts