Fear weighs down heavy on your back

The creaking of the door or the flickering of the lights

Your heart beats faster and your muscles tense up tight

Afraid to face the next attack

Courage is all you seem to lack

 

You can hear your own heart break

But the sound comes from a place you have not yet been

A place you fight your fears but they always win

You can hardly live your life when fear overtakes

And you begin to regret every decision you make

 

You're convinced of the inevitability

Of these monsters that follow you wherever you may go

To eat you up until there is nothing left of you to show

And it becomes harder to reach mobility

When you can barely grasp any stability

 

You sense the eyes of apparitions

Their pupils boring into your soul, but they stay in the dark

They're after your brain, because they've already got your heart

If it weren't for these complications

You might stop and live in admiration

 

You feel the pain that has not come

The invisible spiders that crawl up your skin

All the demons trying to tear their way in

You tell yourself what's done cannot be undone

But you stand in the shadows when you can see the sun

 

Your mind finds everything that could go wrong

And all these monsters you try so hard to avoid

Even though you feel yourself being paranoid

In the midst of searching for somewhere to belong

You've been doing it to yourself all along