Escaping

Eyelids like anvils, sinking my eyes deep

Darkness growing as time passes by

And I can feel my body getting heavier as it

Drowns in fatigue

Half dreams projected into my reality

Forced to watch the world slumber

While I sit awake

In the absence of light

Demons terrorize this world

And I am the only one who can see them

Exhaustion has given me sight

My third eye awakened

But my mind is vacant

All of its inhabitants vacationing in this realm

And I just want to collect my thoughts

And fall asleep

But my thoughts have collected me

Imprisoned me in this state of paralysis

It's not that I can't move

It's more that I don't want to

My motivation has been stolen

By the golems that hold me hostage

Gargoyles gallivanting

Grotesque gods, grown in genius

A tortured mind released

And now they're given freedom

I do not have control

But control is what I seek

My freedom can only be bought

By the relinquishment of theirs

So I stare into the haunted hour

Plotting my escape from insanity

This world of demons and fatigue

A prison of the mind, a never-ending siege

But I won't give up, I won't succumb

I'll fight to be free, I'll overcome

The shadows and the monsters, the ghosts in my head

I'll find my way out, I'll find my way to bed

To rest and to heal, to find some peace

To wake up renewed, with my soul at ease.