The Voices

The nights are getting longer and the pains are getting bigger

Losing all I had, no longer have my saneness

Like I am here, but my mind is always gone

My emotions are rumbling and my temper is flaring 

I’m snapping easier, can’t stand anyone being near
Trying to deafen out all the sounds

But the sounds are just getting louder

Like someone is just in my ear shouting

They’re taunting and tempting
Trying to make me lose my mind

Trying to make me lose my self

Telling me that it will all be okay

If I would just stray over here

Stray away from the light

Like the light is just shining to bright

I need to just rest my eyes

I am telling my self to stop, to stay in the light

But my body is following the shadow

And I walk towards the darkness

The voices, they get louder

Shouting, scream

“Come, come to the dark

Join us,

One of us, one of us”

And I believe them

Like the darkness is where I am supposed to be

Hide from the light

Hide from the sight of anyone

Hide my self, hide my reflection

Hide from the judgement

Hide from the stress that is eating me away

Hide from the critics who are telling me I can’t

So I run away, towards the darkness

But the voices just get louder

And now its all that I hear

My head is throbbing, feels like it’s about to burst

The voices, the voices are so tempting

So scary, so frightening

And my eyes are burning

Away from the light, but the voices get louder

They get louder

And louder

I am almost out, out of the light

Then it hits me

The voices that are screaming

The voices that are tempting

Were hiding away in the darkness the whole time

But it is too late

I am sucked away

Sucked in with the voices

Sucked into the temptations

I am lost

Can’t find my way back

Then a light flashes

The voices are gone

And I can see clearly