THE UNKNOWN CHILD

ONCE BEYOND FOREVER

IN A CITY BETWIXT HEAVENS AND HELLS,

A HEARTBROKEN YOUTH ATTEMPTED ESCAPE

FROM HIS EMOTIONAL SHELL -

BUT INNER STRUGGLES ARE MORE DIFICULT

THAN ANYONE EVER TELLS,

AND SHELLS HAVE A WAY OF CRACKING;

EVEN JERICHO'S WALLS FELL.

THE CHILD THAT I AM DESCRIBING

HAD SURVIVED IN A WORLD OF UNCERTAINTY,

HIS SEVENTEEN YEARS OF LIFE

HAD LASTED LONGER THAN ANY ETERNITY -

BORN IN A HOUSE OF PARENTAL HORROR...

AN INNOCENT BORN TO OBSCENITY,

THIS UNKNOWN CHILD'S MIND WAS TORN

BETWEEN LIFE AND UTTER INSANITY.

BUT WHEN THE SECRETS GREW TOO PAINFUL

AND THE LIES BEGAN TO DEVOUR,

THE UNKNOWN CHILD STOOD ALONE...

RESISTING THE URGE TO COWER -

BUT THE WORLD SEEMED TO STAND AGAINST HIM

AS HE FELL FROM HIS IVORY TOWER,

AND THE RAZOR KISSED AND CARESSED HIM

AS HE DROWNED IN HIS CRIMSON STAINED BOWER.

WHEN HE AWOKE AT LAST AMONG OTHERS

WHO FOR A MOMENT HAD KNOWN DEATH AS A LOVER,

HE KNEW HE WAS NO LONGER ALONE

AND THAT THIS KNOWLEDGE WOULD HELP HIM RECOVER -

AND HE WROTE OF HIS NEW COMPANIONS...

OF HOW THEY'D SURVIVED AND HOW THEY HAD SUFFERED,

HE THOUGHT THEY'D BE WITH HIM FOREVER...

BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HE WAS TO DISCOVER.

THREE YEARS LATER: THEY ARE ALL GONE NOW...

THE CHILDREN THAT HE HAD KNOWN,

AND THOUGH HE CRIED AS THEY DIED THE PAIN WON'T SUBSIDE,

NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE HAS GROWN -

BUT HE STILL LOOKS FOR OTHERS (FOR SISTERS AND BROTHERS)

BECAUSE HE CAN NOT CRY ALL ALONE,

AND I WRITE OF HIS TRIALS...OF HIS LOVERS AND RIVALS...

BECAUSE: I AM THIS CHILD UNKNOWN!