From Calm and Quiet Sanity

From calm and quiet sanity The source of my confusion Brought riot to reality And force behind delusion Assaulting me and leaving me In silent desperation Affronting my humanity Inside this degradation What unseen force maliciously Devoid of good intention Is crushing me perniciously In thoughts of my invention Binding me with indecision's Deepening despair Blinding me with visions Of a world that isn't there The shackles of this grand design Are chains I cannot see And yet they check this life of mine Through false reality In crushing weight of hopelessness I suffer silently A victim of this mind mess Some might call insanity Some struggle for the right to live While others live to die Or battle through the night to give Some meaning to the lie The mystery they can't reveal Is one with no solution How can I know if life is real Or really an illusion?