One, Two, Three

You count my tears
One, two three
and they fall easy and fast
you laugh
you caused them
by your face
the one that smiles
knowing you manipulate like clay
making me into an unrecognizable nothing
that can't even speak or whimper
or ever raise a hand
to strike
your face as it smiles
at my pain, so I
release let it all out
the only way this pain allows so I
cry
one, two, three
the Hollow sound echoes
the pain
the misery
it echoes
for every lonely soul that reaches to strangle
and untangle the mess
like spaghetti
eaten with a knife and no fork
its saved to stab out your soul
but it falls limp to the broken tiles
and splashes in the tears that fall
one, two three
the first thing a kid learns next to his A,B,C's
that simple beginning leads to the this complicated, broken alphabet soup
that I sip
as the tears make a splash
One, Two, Three
~DaLe 07.28.07