A shade haunts me within the deep
Recesses of my restless sleep,
He interrupts my world of dreams
With terror bursting at the seams,
He likes his soul to mine own bind
While slowly he destroys my mind
And subjugates all my free will
Beneath his own; and further still,
He loves to see me writhe in pain
And hear screams as I go insane.
He knows the agony is more
Than I can bear, and so in store
He has but only more for me,
And I no resistance to he,
For first when came he did I try
To halt his plan to bury I,
And I built walls within my brain
To keep me in and out his pain-
But he found cracks in mortared brick
And cement through which he could stick
His prying and defiling claws;
Each wall for him was but a pause.
And soon enough he was inside
The lair of me he'd been denied,
And like a child in candy's reach
Or near blood a bloodthirsty leech,
He reveled in his newfound home
And around my poor brain did roam;
He broke into my hidden vaults,
Revealing there all of my faults
And rotting who I used to be
To bring about a brand new me,
Most feculent and unadored,
As useful as infested board.
And where did I such nuisance find?-
He was but product of my mind,
A random hope, a distant sight
Within me I had to invite,
A nuisance to annoy me so
To force this nuisance me to go.