Internal Eyes -

It’s been a slow and steady crawl

To get a third of the way through without destroying it all

And every day I welcome change

But new perspective brings new shame

So I’m haunting myself everywhere that I go

They’ll break me down and start again

When all is calm and settled in

Like cancer-ridden light, these burning knives

Will rip through every lie I’ve ever told myself

They’re a part of me I can’t expel

The wheels will spin to build this hell

If I stray from mind they’ll cast out the line

And reel me back inside

They do their worst at night

Never asleep, never a sound

As they forge deeper underground

Their rational knows no bounds

With unbridled strength, I’m swept away

You know delusion can persuade

My settled mind to simply erase

They’ll scan me through for something sick

And once these bones are clearly picked

The cold will grow deeper to control

I don’t know where to go to get away from this

So I live through you.

Through everyone

In search of a reason why I fall to my internal eyes

They only paralyze anything and everything

But I’ll blind them with the light of this life

And they’ll die in the dead of the night