When the Darkness Descends

When the darkness descends
Like a harsh artic wind
Freezing my blood icy cold
Hold me tight, keep me in the light

When the darkness descends
Like an evil former friend
With threatened whispers of death
Hold me tight, keep me in the light

When the darkness descends
With torturous doubts
And deadly regret
Hold me tight, keep me in the light

When the darkness descends
An overwhelming bleakness
Slowly stealing my life from me
Hold me tight, keep me in the light

When the darkness descends. . .

The Shadow

It comes from a place
Barren and bleak
Where light is never seen
And nothing good ever grows

A faceless shadow
With deep hollows for eyes
A soulless creature
Spreading pain and despair

It keeps pace with me
Step for step
Lurking in the darkest corners
Of my mind

Its searing breath
Burns my neck
Its bony fingers
Digging deep inside of me

It follows
It stalks
A relentless enemy
A constant companion

I can’t run
There is no place to hide
There is no escape

As its leaded cloak engulfs me
Crushing the breath from my chest
Draining the blood from my veins
Ripping my soul from my heart

Landscape

Mountains of pain
A sea of agony
A valley of despair
A world without hope

Today

The rain came today
Not pure and clean
But dark and burning
Like acid tears
Searing my skin, my flesh, my bone
Stopped only
By the flooding rush
Of my ice cold blood

Sometimes I don't know what to feel
Everything I thought that I knew starts to look so unreal
There's a ringing in my head that keeps me awake at night
Some times I don't know what is right....

I thought there was some love in the world but I guess
I'm wrong

"Sometimes I don't know what to feel" Todd Rundgren

Some mistakes cannot be fixed.
Some debts never repayed.
Some wounds never heal.
Some lives should never be lived.

Your blood
stains my face
my hands
Your soul
a prisoner
in my guilty heart
I can't let you go
I can't let you go

It comes
Like a vulture in the night
Its beak gleaming
Like a knife in the moonlight
Silent, it hovers
As it rips skin from flesh
Flesh from bone
Broken and mangled
Shattered pieces of me