Beneath My Feral Hide

 
The windowpanes caught fire
And scorched slow
As I labored awake

I strained and heaved
To be clear and conscious
To coast through the morn
Unburdened, by days long lost

Still
I labored onward
Shroud
In nightmarish agony

I remained watchful
With prowling eyes
True to their search
For the cause
Of each mindless
Daily breath

The hunger
Never fully fades
For it remains within
Beneath my feral hide  

Swan Dive

 
Scorched days pave
Slithering paths in the sand
As the mind falls victim
Preyed upon by delusion

It has become my fate
In the safety and solitude of home
Where I burden my psyche
With only myself

Where I spiral unhinged
Dismantled and out of touch

Where I spiral unhinged
Dismantled
Out of touch

Where I spiral
Unhinged
Out of touch
Dismantled

Ivory walls
And popcorn covered ceilings
Inch close by the hour
As the mind softly simmers

Dismantled
Out of mind
Out of touch

I am tired
I have given my all
I am fully wrung dry

Dissolved
Unhitched
Spiraling
In mind

Until thoughts boil over
And melt and mesh
All the same

Out of time
Unraveled
In distress

Evading Delirium

 
The noxious fumes
Waft about me
Each hour I stray and wander

A companion
I desperately strive to evade
With all of my harbored might

Yet delirium hangs close
To compromise my sight
And render my limbs
Feeble, drained and helpless

The dust storm revels
Having swallowed up
My writhing frame

Like live bait
Swaying in the current
Awaiting the full weight
Of total, unwavering dark

Agony Thrives

 
A steep fall
And lightening flares
In bolts of agony
Spiraling up my legs

I endure the scream
Which never departs
In moments of staggering
Driven
By the fumes of spite

Pain flourishes
Through the sprawl of darkness
This harrowing strand of night

Up ivory roads
Reduced to shambles
Torment climbs
To claim
My fragmented thoughts