I hide inside my brain

I hide inside my brain

Fat and covered in slimly, pink, worms

Decades old and still it withstands. 

But down beneath the goopy ridges,

Right when things turn smooth,

There’s a thumping into the thoughtless silence. 

A constant, painful, Ba-dum Ba-dum Ba-dum

And would that hideous noise become louder

I could no longer hide my ugly pearl

Fingers would pry it from my brain-

Squishing out of the walnut center-

And scattering the slimy, pink, worms. 

And then it would be revealed to the light-

My beasty pearl in the hands of the gods. 

And I would reach with gooey fingers-

I would yank it back, brains dripping down my face

And shove it back into that wormy hole. 

And while the crowd looks with horrified eyes

I will close the hole with thorny stitches

And poke my skin until they cry.

Because I don’t care if they think I’m crazy-

I won’t let them find out I hid my heart inside my brain