within my darkest crimes lie nursery rhymes read by its monsters and written by lies all bedtime stories are just yours and mine and only to be read at our story time read over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over we echo to ourselves where no answer came no one person has so may eyes we are who we are in a field caught alone a virgin flower blooms among the weeds their dirty seeds rip petals doom we did not want to touch that monsters game zip zip zip i hate this zip zip and take a peek slip slip slip i hate this slip your monster in the meek  the picture strobes growing bright then fading away we recall the feel of it wiry hair curious touches slow side to side stop then start again we recall the feel of it we recall the feel of it the picture strobes growing bright then fading away warning free for all hallway steps hide from eyes and monster breath hide behind doors that creak and moan don t be caught with your monster alone we should be dead kicked in the stomach don t know why pushed down the stairs don t ask why burned by an iron don t know why tenfold lucky are those who die we hide behind doors never alone we hide from the monster mommy can you keep secrets when you sleep one for your conscience one for his name one for this little one whose name you will blame who are we kiss me as monsters do punch choke and yell you too pinch me i will too touch me mirror hell i do we saw black we saw flickers of black do little girls and little boys have such tales to tell where secrets girls and secrets boys churn memories that yell could little girls and little boys pronounce memories taste or do secrets girls and secrets boys vomit shake erase we are young we hold the pain deep for us all