Dream of Escape

You wake up from the dream.
Wondering where you were.
Found yourself in your room.
Filled with wonder.

...

You feel the sweat upon your skin,
feel the cold, the heat, the silence
that hangs in the air after a death,
after an event of cursed emotions.

You lift up your head and feel the tears
that have stained your cheeks in their trails,
glittering in the faint light of dawn -
there's nowhere to go,
nowhere to mourn.

Agony had ripped through your entire being;
you'd seen your friends die before your eyes,
heard the gargling, the tears, the pain
and you couldn't help them at all.

Reaching out - you try to stop,
try to awaken from your nightmare
but the futile fight only ends in shadows -
a blackened painting of your mind.

+[You can't escape the demons inside]+
+[You can't ignore their words, their eyes]+

You...
I see their eyes,
I see him...beating me

I -

+[Haunted]+

- see them fall one by one

+[Horrors]+

Feel the agony, the wrenching -
the corpses scattered about the grounds
upon which I tred

+[and you can't escape it]+

No I can't escape it.
I can never escape it.
Always dreaming - always screaming,
I can't help but see these wrongs

and each morn I wake and dread another night,
frightened, shaking, ashamed of my thoughts,
my mind.

Stiff in my limbs,
exhaustion from the tears,
tired of the demons inside me.

Longing for a night of peace,
tense as I stand in waiting,
feeling alone and unwanting.

I can't help but be +[broken]+
from the things that I see.
There's no end to my torment,
no way I'll be free.