a secret unveiled

a secret untold, bursting to unfold
a tragic story shut in the Pandora
of a girl, a woman with withering soul
the secret whispered: “to the light, to the light”

has never seen the sun, so bright
or the shimmery stars in the night
the shore of fresh salty breeze
or a humming bird’s kiss

four decades of darkness in the ghastly dungeon
tormented
shuddered at the sound of creaking vault
misery

the world?
is smaller than her heart
her world?
bares the scars of perverted warps

her eyes fixed upon the stale spinning blades
and then she was saved
but the memories of monstrosity remain