In the cellar’s midnight
glow
You never see. I never show.
How growing shadows sift
below
And tear away at what I know
Who am I now?
Where did you go?
Time has dealt a deadly
blow.
Open eyes turn reptile red
The dying life, the living
dead
Clouds of tears like words
unsaid
Instill a seeping sense of
dread
What holds you now?
Who shares your bed?
Memories drifting, feelings
bled.
Marble eyed with bloodshot
strands
Jagged, dust-strewn,
cobwebbed hands
Phantoms howl obscene
demands
Voiceless echoes, darkened
lands
Have you been in the
basement?
Do you dare understand?
Madness burns like grains
of sand.
