The Night Swallowed Whole
The night passes onward
The fear of sleeping, like a coward
The dark past is drilled into the back of his mind
Just wish he could go back and rewind
Back through the broken hourglass overflowing with the sands of time
He can’t drown his demons, they know how to swim
As the moon aligns higher in the sky, he knows he can’t win
The mental scars that infiltrate his tattooed kingdom of a body
The feeling of being unworthy…. A nobody….
Fills his decimated circuits of impending memories
To the point of impact so all he sees
Is his former hero of a father unleashing a beating
But don’t you see the night is young… This is only the beginning
The beginning of the night terrors storming his head
Years will pass by, but he will never forget
Forget about the hell he faced during childhood
He would rather forget if he could
He is the King throughout the day
Portraying the mask of confidence and happiness with every sway
But when the sun goes down
So does his confident crown
An insomniac is born & swallowed whole by the night
The weariness & sleeplessness gets too hard to fight
Here is where the war of dark memories commence
And reality at that point makes no sense
The unconscious screaming & frantic movements scurry through the night
Then the awakening sudden frights strike
Strike the mind, with the body sweating from the battles waging on
So he drowns his fears with the lyrics of his favorite songs
To block out all the dark memories sieging his castle of dreams
He falls to his knees
His crown falls to the ground
He looks out to the stars until they fall
The sun rises & the cycle restarts
He is a dreamer full of fear
Waiting for the next night terror
He will sit upon his throne until the sun sets once again
Because it is those dark sickening memories he could never forget
As he closes his eyes at night
He returns back to the time, when he was a kid living in complete darkness full of fright.
That is when he feels trapped inside.
Like a labyrinth chained to the burden with no place to run or hide
Only left alone with a terror filled mind……
Copyright © Skylar Valles | Year Posted 2014
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