As the music plays

          I stop

For it slowly reminds me of words

Words so obscure

Words so painful

Words so damaging

I stop

For there are only chances now

For there are no more tears to shed

As the music plays

          I speak

These confounding words left me crying

Crying alone in the dark

I stop

For fire is now starting to devour me

As its fiery play seep through me

I stop

As the music plays

          I bleed

For I am frozen from the sacrilege in me

The bewildering song that I sing

The vanquishing thoughts I think

I sing, I dance, I act

For as the music plays

Everything stops…

And everyone sees the real me