Sanity Seen Through the Eyes of a Mad House
Sanity Seen Through The Eyes of a Madhouse'''
There he was
Alone sitting in darkness
with lingering shadows that lurk in and out of troubled dreams
waiting like thieves for another walk down memory lane of the chronically driven mind of those gone insane
as he peers through a tattered window into the abyss
now a thought forsaken of something I still miss
he was a man before his birth
then darkness errupted like a ing curse
taking his hand once innocent away from the goodness inside
unbearable was his torment seen in life
his dreams now scream with the tortuous cries of a hellish fiend
withered like a rose with thorns beautifully floating on a lake without water
he finds solace in the solitude of his mind
no longer an empty bottle
yet solitude was a place of peace where voices are without sound
unable to scream and howl shaking his spine weakened with tears falling down trembling jowls
as he feels the gripping lure of evil
pull towards
some beastly figure... a spawn of he himself the devil
like sweet misery whispering vengeance
waking demons hovering over his sleepless body
a soul broken delving repentance
midnight was the hour
tick tock says the distant eye watching from that eerie tower
still... vacant eyes gaze into the realm of terror
with laughing remains ashen to the bone afflicted by silence shrouded in mischief
bleeding with fright
then he glimpses the light of a full moon as panic boils into sight of endless rain poisonous that night
reality was a riddle painted on the lifeless walls of a madhouse....?
Copyright © Paul Gardiner | Year Posted 2021
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