Screaming in pain like a slash from a knife
A vision of hate reappears
A voice sent from hell softly whispers my name
It begs for my life and my tears
Fractals spin and break as my vision softly warps
Fingertips grow icy cold my soul is being scorched
A burnt square of flesh in my tongue can only know
Where my mind can, screaming, go
Rocking, muttering, there’s no iron rod to hold
I tremble as the lights start to grow
Repeating thoughts, begin to appear
Flashing lights, ringing ears
A light seeps through as my mouth is forced to laugh
My sides are aching, my jaw is clasped
Manic muttering in the dark of a room
Piecing thoughts, chaos viewed
Walls drip down as the floor gives in
Falling through to a cage within
I forgot the tongues which I spoke
Phlegm gurgles out from my throat
Oh broken down, a wandering soul
Who I am, what I know
Shaking
I’m howling
As my life starts
Dissolving
Fragments
Being
It’s myself
I’m deceiving
Repeating thoughts, begin to appear
Flashing lights, ringing ears
A light seeps through as my mouth is forced to laugh
My sides are aching, my jaw is clasped
It’s I who has broke
I’m entrenched in my path
A creature, a worm in the mud
No life reaching through
No help for the damned
A ferry to float in the muck
Shepard I’ll break your crook
Your flock is left for wolves
Coyotes howl with might
As buzzards rip at your skull
Transformed I’ve seen myself
As somebody sees someone
Left behind then broke my path
The evil has always won
Forlorn and gifted am I
For it’s few that fate bestows
What in faith I surely lack
The blotter always knows
Shaking
I’m howling
As my life starts
Dissolving
Fragments
Of being
It’s myself
I’m deceiving
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