When Will They Leave Us Alone?

Bound in chains of blood,
Here on this earth sometimes tears come.
Drowned by the flood.

Darkness envelopes, these chains weigh me down.
Thought I was uplifted, the face of a clown.

Blood stained mirror with a razor sharp edge
Why are they coming?
Jumping from the window ledge.

Sometimes blood seems frozen, still.
Sometimes this blood is warming
When the world wants to kill.

In chains lest I forget
What I was born to do,
This pain sharpens
Inside,
Instruments I can no longer hear
The pain is greater
Than my very worst fear.

They cannot take me
Or forsake my child,
They can kill my flesh
But, my soul they cannot share
I try to run from this bloody lair.

One minute I am drowning
The next I stumble through every drop
Rivers of rain take me from the pain.
Here in chains no safe place to go
Bodies decay row by row.

Here we have been exiled,
Pain tastes like death,
Falling, choking on every breath.
I try to keep moving, but these chains stop
The storms batter my burnt flesh.

Hunger is a longing for fresh air
Where the fires burn no longer
Where the devil dares to strike
Where you long for escape
Nobody comes to rescue
Maybe I should give up and accept my fate
Let the rage consume with a terrible hate.

A fire consumes,
A bottomless pit,
Sliding on black ice that I cannot see
I dream of being set free.
Yet I am tight, held in a cage
Pain envelopes my every being
Every sense is filled with smoke fumes
I cry yet nobody hears
This is where I am going to die.
I choke bitterly consumed by my despair.