Broken Mind 

Lusty cries for hope, unanswered. 
The curtain of nightmares falls, 
turning Candyland to Hell. 
I am trapped, sightless, deaf to the orders of drivers 
Their whips flashing insanity in the darkness of my mind. 
A single ray of divine light piercing the gloom... 
I reach but fall short. 
Yet he never sees me fail, 
never sees the chains 
which wrench happiness from my heart. 
Terror and hate now conquer, 
My fierce battle only now begun, fighting, 
fighting the world with a sharpened tongue 
My only weapon, my weapon of choice. 
My crusade is bloody and ceaseless 
The hull of the person i used to be 
Is borne away with a smile by the trickster wind. 
I have changed forever now. 

Sydney Maddox, 4/3/01