Locked Away
Location
Hidden in the shadows
Far from where it can taint
Your perfect peace and joy
With the truth that is reality
You do not want to see it
Because you fear that what you have
Is only an illusion
Something that will disappear
The moment that you realize
That it is all a fake
Because everything is false but the truth
And yet you refuse to accept that
Cease to communicate with those who know
Simply to avoid the painful existence.
Chains tear at the flesh
As it struggles to break free
Yet you tighten the binds and turn your back
Shielding your mind from the cries
Nothing can pierce this desperate obstruction
But you still build upon it
Burying the screams in layer upon layer
Of beliefs and shallow reassurances
It cannot escape, cannot force you to face
What you will one day encounter
It is inevitable, this forgiveness, this challenge
There is no passage to permit you to flee
The poison seeps through the masks
Despite your precautions
Haunting your dreams
Slivering in the shadows
Laughing as you shrug away the sights
In the corners of your eyes
Blaming them on the sun, the moon
The spirits of the past
It is there, hidden in the shadows
Never to leave you be
Never to dissolve in the searing sun
Only to appear on the final day
The dying breaths incapable
Of locking the fear away
Preparing you for the hunger within
Which will consume you as those final rays
Of light fade in the dusk sky
Casting your world into darkness
Ravaged with the taunting shadows
That plagued your mind your entire life
Always there but never seen
Until the time is right
Insanity claims us all at this moment
For, freed from the shackles of life,
We fall to the claws of madness.