Broken Hope

The Internal Twin

Broken Hope


Inside my fertile mother, the egg fertilized 
And from one egg, two individuals originated 
A pair of identical twins began to grow 
But in an unnatural quirk the embryos fused 
And I absorbed my embryonical sibling into me 
From my earliest fetal stages into adulthood 
His displaced cells grew as I did 
We matured together in the oddest ways 
Together as one we were born to be 
I grew up as a freak, a walking monstrosity 
A living abnormality for scientific study 
Tumorous growths on and in my body cause me pain 
Of dermoid origins, these tumors are pieces of my brother 
These teratomas sprout across my body 
As my fragmented sibling develops from my torsos 
My brother lives within 
Inside lays the internal twin 
My stomach contains rows of his teeth 
Molars and incisors grow from the organ walls 
And scalp hair clumps from external teratocarinomas 
His bulbous eyeballs protrude from my right temple and ear 
They twitch inside misshapen sockets 
Sightless they roll and gaze into black 
A toothless cartilage mouth opens from my chest 
Its rubbery spasms will never speak a word 
And his retarded raging thoughts I hear 
He bellows and cries inside of my skull 
His berserk, confused substratum shrieks drive me mad 
His underdeveloped brain grows from mine 
And his retarded raging thoughts I hear 
He bellows and cries inside of my skull 
Always he has shared my vital organs 
My heart, my lungs, and pulsing blood 
Since birth his survival has depended on me 
His nurturing has me to thank 
I am sorry brother I can no longer live like this 
It is time to finally set you free 
Subconscious echoes as my twin horrifically scrams 
The surgeons' scalpels cut him out piece by piece