Family Portrait

She talks to 
Portraits on the wall
They keep her company
Inside four corners of alone

Practicing saying sorry 
To the people with no faces

Where she has used
The last of her words
To conjugate the image
Of being seen and not heard

Practicing saying sorry 
To the people with no faces

She reiterates
She reiterates
She reiterates

Where she retches from
The back of her throat
The right letters
To make it sound sincere
Repeated in the lines
Of a false confession

Practicing saying sorry 
To the people with no faces

Punishments for her 
Childhood ending 
she sits at the edge
On a white whicker bed
Thinking about her sins again 
Till the lines began to blur together 

Practicing saying sorry 
To the people with no faces

She reiterates
She reiterates
She reiterates

Practicing saying sorry
To the people with no faces

Slush metal 
 Dream Punk 
Riot girls