Window to the mind
the eyes revealing
More than the gleaming incisors
trying to deceive
Pain wearing a salve,
wounds under festering
Not an ache for the teeth -
far away from the heart-
caging the tongue that need be
clear and clean always
Seen, unseen and many unimagined
Horrors casting shadows
upon the long, lonely lives
Societies, communes, interests, hobbies
elaborate arrangements to escape
Yet the beast residing within
comes uncaged at eventide
Mauling away sleep and with it
the many eager
Dreams that were once
yearning to see the daylight
keen as the dewdrops smiling
oblivious of the fate the morning brings
The charade of grin-
Humans trying best to tame
the melancho-holic beast
that chases past teethy smiles
and dewy eyes that know-
What lies beneath?
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