Oh yeah, back to me and back to posting thingamajigs. This poem definitely has all kinds of meanings without actually dictating them out. Have fun figuring it out. ^^
4 Kids in Needless Distress, Salvation
The cloudless hue,
was but the enveloping
mist that surrounded us.
Are we the ones judged to be taken?
Bright lights,
hide intentions too sinister,
motions and thoughts that we can't understand-
voices in our minds we cannot decipher.
It's cold,
too cold for the tears
that well into my eyes,
blinded by the fear of that radiant halo.
With the great wheel of fire,
we went as they,
subjects all,
to the implacable wills.
We aren't mere pawns,
tools to your dark transfiguration.
Or puppets to be twisted
to your inquisitive abominations.
Left,
hollow and forgotten-
as madmen with tales of lunacy and perverse fantasy,
But we speak truths you won't here!
Why can't we remember!?
All that remains is a scratching paranoia,
a dark scream echoing in our minds;
nightmares bathed in blinding lights.
Dreams of pale faces in eyeless sockets,
creep inward to silence lost memories,
cryptic tendrils
saw anamnesis never spoken aloud.
This is probably not something I should be reading after watching a horror movie marathon. From the first stanza, my thoughts were "Aliens! They're being abducted by aliens!" Second stanza, "The aliens are dissecting their brains! Oh my goodness, it's like a classic alien movie!~" Third stanza,"They're locked in a refrigerator." You also changed person there. You said "...my eyes.." instead of our, where you were using "we" the two previous stanzas. Fourth stanza, I got a bit confused. I assume they all became unwilling minions of the aliens. You've also switched back to the "we" person. Fifth stanza, that's where they start to rebel. Sixth stana, it sounds like they've returned to earth, but no one believes what they say about their alien abduction. Seventh stanza, have they forgotten? Have they been driven to the point from all the people who don't believe them, to come to believe or doubt theirselves? Eigth stanza, they've grown old and their memories are splotchy, but they keep remembering it wether they realize it or not. it's scarred them so bad they'll never forget the horror they witnessed by the aliens. Also, "...pale faces in eyeless sockets," Shouldn't it be faces -with- eyeless sockets?
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