The Silencing Scream

The Scream- Edvard Munch (1893)

The orange Sun seems so far away

as he stands trapped in his own mind.

The Ocean drowns out his pain

leaving him with nothing

but the smell of the sea.

The ocean. free and untamed.

able to show its true beauty

not trapped behind a mask.

He longs for the independence,

the ability to do what he wishes,

but as he tries to grasp whatever is left-

the dock seems to be sinking,

as he struggles to hold on to what is real

there is nothing still there.

His dreams are destroyed,

he cannot show his true self.

He is trapped by the boundaries;

set by a mad society to confine

and suppress individuality.

No one is perfect,

so why should he be perfect in the

eyes of another.

Reality has become a mess,

all he can do now is

Scream,

But how much will that help him,

He screams loud enough for the world to hear him,

or so he believes.

This scream should be the scream that silenced the world,

that led to deeper analysis on society.

His scream is our scream, the only difference is that it’s aloud.

The world doesn’t stop for just one

Scream.