the dolorous pleas
echo through her ears,
like wisps floating
down a canal
the piercing screeches
beset her sanity,
like hounds chewing
through oak doors
their abject tears
drip, whimper,
frozen in the air,
scrambling in descent
many turn their heads,
slice their ears off,
let the blood saturate,
and mute it away
others bind the sight,
the sound, the life,
remove it,
dispatch it, for good
but she,
she knows
and bottles it all up
to show to the world