Voices

Every night, I lay in bed
Shifting, tossing, turning
As I try to rest my head
Ignoring everything outside

Just one full night is what I'm yearning
One night of peaceful slumber
No more nightmares and fleeting thoughts
Of dread and horror that I cant escape

I know that one day it will come- Doom's Day
And I know that I can not run
It will some day catch up to me
And swallow me whole
Take me in, chew me up, and spit me out
Out of its dark and grotesque belly
There lie my haunting thoughts and dreams of what I dread
Of those both living and those who are dead
The people I love and the people I hate
Their screams and their cries
That echo forever in the darkness

I roll in my bed
Staring, but seeing nothing
I hear only the voices
Shouts and whispers
Moans and screams
Laughing and crying
I hear them louder every night
And I can not block them out

There is no way to shove them from my mind
I can only listen
Listen and hold in my screams of annoyance and pain
How long will this continue?
How much more can I endure?
How much longer until I burst?
Will the silence ever come?

For now, I must abide the horror that gnaws at my consciousness
Until the silence comes, I must lie here
Numb, cold, and absent from the living world
In the darkness- with the voices