Beating Culprit

A screeching resounds beneath uncolored flesh

Echoing off bones, tickling organs within

Nerves entice muscles to provoke a crime

Barely constrained by a stench of chagrin

Poison envenoms already soaked sentiments

Birthed by a beating culprit varnished

What once cared to relieve a burden and tear

Is itself charred, battered and tarnished

A masked visage beleaguers an honest smile

To choke behind hidden clenched teeth

Guilty and bright eyes forced into deceit

While dancing nightmares riddle underneath