By SOUM (Screams of Unfettered Minds)
An impenetrable curtain
Of red descends
Bloodiest of shades
Drip, drip, drip
Shutters lower on
The external vista
Velvet black envelops
The stunned ego
Silence caresses incoming
Garbled, mangled babble
Mutes the screams
From pleading reason
Sanity slithers into
The fathomless abyss
Body memory takes
Over together now
With subsumed emotions
A temple of
Self-imagined hurt
An explosive tempestuous
Tantrum, detonation imminent
Zero self-restraint
Pin-point precision a
Predatory focus target
Is acquired as
The berserker rises
THE END
SOUM (Screams of Unfettered Minds) is a collaboration of three Pasifika women from New Zealand, who prefer their art and poetry to speak for them. This newly-formed trio describe their style as raw, unpolished, tongue-in-cheek, unapologetic, unfiltered, born from years of shadow-work and presented straight from the heart. They champion mental awareness and social issues and gain inspiration from the struggles of everyday people; the darker aspects of their physical, mental and spiritual battles.