I have Changed

Lurking at the edge of my mind

Where only the wildest of my terrors dare to roam

Slender shadows, their essence only death and pain

Blindly wandering the fiery pits of hell

 

These shadows, they overcome my dreams

Veiling the sweetest of sleeps with thoughts of suffering

With thoughts of torment of the most gruesome death of the mind

Their icy talons made of nightmares prying apart my sanity

 

Their cries of sadistic delight, watching with glee my pain

They tear my very mind apart

Until my sanity has fled the clutches of the black creatures

No longer to be tormented in a cage of senseless agony

 

No longer I am myself

A slave to their will, I reluctantly follow their cries to the inferno of hell

The source of my malady, they shriek with sick pleasure at what I have become

A slim shadow of my former self.

 

One of them.