The Brighton…#328 

                                                                                The Brighton  

Note:  The Brighton asylum was located in Illinois USA.  This piece is a story in Poetry about one of its patients.

1900, bleeding, freezing and kicks to the head,

Shock therapy this describes Brighton a home

For the insane; their treatment of patients until

They were dead.

It was Brighton’s’ policy for the insane, physical

Abuse, water torture, and lobotomies, convinced

It would eventually set the patients mind free. 

There are those who believe that a spirit lives there

Still, caretakers thought she had run away.  They

Found her lifeless body in 1979 incased in one of the

Walls when they demolished the building; they called

It an accident not a crime.

Cold, lifeless bones unclothed, how she had died no

One would ever know.  Her name was on her dress

They say the shape of a woman can still be roaming the

Land where she died, at night a ghostly figure floats up

And down the road, many have heard her cry. 

A haunting you might say, Brighton a real house of

Horrors where murder, suicide and brutality reigned while

Bodies frail and bloodstained were constrained.  Torn down,

Yes, but its dark history remains, but the torture within should never

Be forgotten.              

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