Lost inside

I. I stumbled down a corridor of screams, Where shattered children claw at broken glass. My temples bleed black rivers, thick with dreams— Rootless thorns that pierce but never pass. II. I was a star torn open in the void, An angel crushed beneath its shattered light Now I crawl through wounds I self-employed, And swallow silence sharp as night. III. Dreams gnaw my spine like rabid beasts of bone, Pages ripped from lungs that choke on breath. I speak no words, just bones turned to stone, A syntax forged in the furnace of death. IV. Time’s razor splits my chest in two cold halves, Its walls drip names I once wore like skin. The moon forgets me; my shadow laughs I’m lost to all the selves I’ve been. V. I dig for voices buried deep in scars, A fossil tongue soaked in salt and rust. I vanish in this hollow prison of stars Where loss is hunger, and hunger is dust.