Within The Cages

I tried, I tried to talk myself out of the late night
voices that call out to me
while I'm sound asleep

Voices that sound like
demons, their claws gripping
my neck with a tight grasp
draining the oxygen from
my body like a straw

their bold black eyes staring
into my soul, filling me with
misery to feast upon 
as there teeth expand to finish
me off

My eyes are dead, emotionless
Still to the echoing words that
this monster inject me with,
through his claws that puncture
my bleeding kneck

I feel my my heart thump in
my chest, the sound mimicking
drums at a fast pace speading
up as I get closer to my death

The it stops, the demons retreats
My air is back, I gulp in oxygen
like it's a second skin glued to mine
My eyes water, the pain I once felt
nothing but a nightmare

Thick purple scars, rung around
my neck like a tatoo, I didn't want
I look down to my hands as instanity
Climbs into my skin like vines from
a plant finding new soil to root in

Hallucinations fly around me like
a fly whose wing was broken feeding
me images of things that aren't real
My mouth is dry, my tears have died

I panic, my screams come out mute
I can't talk, my voice ripped away from
Me from the demon, whose claws are hands
Smirking at me in the distance

"I will take away your ability to create" He said,
His voice like glass shattering in the wind
Like dragging your nail across a chalkboard
Your ears bleed from his voice, shivers up your spine

His plans are simple, insanity brews
Your mind isn't safe from the demons within
They feast upon your words, your safety net
To take them away, and feast on your head

To ruin your mind, and find what you hid
From the world you deny being apart of
You can run, but you can never hide
From the demons who sleep within

The cages of your mind