Trapped In My Mind
I turn to face
The stale air of sickened hope
To watch one last time
Before the shadows engulf
And turn me blind,
I cannot breathe
The walls are closing in
All around me
The air so thin
Nothing I can see,
Loneliness
The only notion I cannot cure
What’s the meaning of free
When this empty life I must endure,
Closed eyes amongst me
There is no light
Darkness devours
Taunts throughout the lonely night,
The slow, lethargic hours
Where thoughts creep
Into where I lay in my bed
Allows for no sleep
Bitterness offered instead,
Somberness carries so deep
Into my vulnerable head,
The light used to shine
But now
Stricken and unkind,
Pity, the only place
I am tortured, yet safe
Is inside my mind
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