Take My Hand

Take this hand that’s gnarled and calloused
Let me lead you from the light
And I will show to you the dark side
Where we dwell twixt day and night

Imagine if you will a cruise ship
You on deck or cabin royal
There enjoy what life has brought you
We below decks work and toil

So it is in life you live
That just surface you can see
But far below we live in twilight
Ghost and demons feast on me

You at night will go to sleep
On feathered pillow rest your head
To wake refreshed on morning’s chorus
We toil through as living dead

To live within unending darkness
No variances to our day
No structure to define the hours
We are forced to slave away

Time to us just has no meaning
No day or night or months or years
Just the constant screams of terror
Where we dwell amidst our fears

Although you say you want to see
Where hell is life and life is hell
I say to thee be wary for
It is not pleasant here to dwell

To live a life in constant torment
Demons rive and tear at flesh
Maniacal screams of laughter
As in pain you writhe and thresh

Taken by the hordes of creatures
Which abuse your worthless soul
Forced to do as they command
When all your being they control

All this adds to twist your mind
That you will gnaw away inside
And evermore tormented by
The thought that you wish you had died

But here we never do expire
Now forever here must dwell
In this place of ghosts and demons
In this place a living hell

So do not seek to find the knowledge
Of the dark side yet again
For once you find yourself within
Then here in turmoil you remain