A Family Photo

The only photo from my family album that remains

We are all connected and I never knew their real names

No reunion will ever happen here

The light scatters the shadows and they disappear

Daylight invades and scares the shadows away

The walls are unable to speak and I thank them for their silence, don't give my secrets away

A clinical setting to get myself right

I am not alone my fears don't surrender to the light

No ground was broken here, no breakthrough or cure was found

No one ever really tried the loudest noise silence ever made no sound

Countless others have spent time here my memory traps them inside

I was wrong to never come forward and tell others about all they hide

Interest groups and councils debate

Research funding and cutbacks seal the fate

Institutions like this shutdown and all research undone

Forced to empty the rooms and released by the shadows to chase the sun