As I lie and try to slumber in the mud and rain

Something waits and watches patiently until I close my face

Though darkness oozes from the sky I’m forced to stay awake

For when I sleep that beast in me is free to leave his cave.

My eyes are vials taking in the darkness of the night

They fill like bags of murky water, clouding up my mind

Slowing sinking, breathing slowly, yet still trying to fight

To stay awake I stare at what so dimly lights the sky.

Surely failing, I start falling, deep into that darkness

Soon surrounded by a cellar, chained inside a harness

Seemingly helpless, there I sit and stare at something heartless

Something empty, something void, much worse than a heart of hardness.

I can’t escape, I must awake, must run away from here

But once I do it is too late, behold that thing of fear

So made of hate, so full of wrath, its slithering somewhere near

So stealthily around my throat then whispers in my ear.

“Go back to sleep unto that place that I may freely be

That place you dare to never see, your darkest memories

For there I live and dream of you while you beg to be free

Let’s never forget that I am you, and you’ve always been me.”