The Silver Kiss
Eileen, age 15

Today I walk home from school

waiting for that silver kiss

that I know will greet my skin

when I am behind the locked door

the sharpness of steel will caress

thus splitting forth the red sea

crash come the waves

my sorrow spills over

my thoughts decrease

I am numbed

in ecstasy of laughter

a gothic fairy tale

I see the proof of pain

the cry of humanity

a silent scream of loneliness

that my silver kiss has delivered.