Tonight's musings

Unwelcome
Who gave you the right to waltz in here?
Sauntering in like a smooth criminal
In your black jacket and your patent leather shoes
Waving your cane around so arrogantly…
Demanding attention,
Disrupting the ball,
Announcing your arrival with boisterous glee.
Banging your stick and waving your fists...
Nothing will ever be as it used to be.

Swiping away the cobwebs,
Opening up old wounds,
Screaming in the silent voids of my mind.

A parasite getting comfy in my brain,
Robbing me of the security
Of being sane.

I want to kick and scream!
Shoo you away with a mighty sword…
But I am paralyzed.
Tied to my front row seat with chains of heredity.

I silently sit here watching you assault
the shell of who I used to be.