Balloon Man

Broken Straight jacket remains

Hung around his deformed body

Four deep gashes

Inflicted upon his pale face

Oozing sticky dark

Pitch black blood

Large clothes pin like clips

Pulled the skin on his face impossibly tight

Forcing a painful smile

Revealing sharpened black teeth

In his hands

He held the strings

Attached to an array of colorful balloons

Each one of them

Held something trapped inside

Something that was precious

To every living being on Earth

For this man

He was the collector

Of the condemned souls