Harrowing Minds

• Max Bubb, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2014

Five in one
Just one to some
Can not run
Voices weigh a ton

Whispers of power
Shouts of violence
My thoughts they devour
Drowning all silence

Made docile on meds
A husk; brain dead
Hating but needing
Limbo ‘tween impeding and speeding

Alone yet crowded
Reality is shrouded
Only with five deaths do I sleep
A blissful silence, final and deep