There is a dark and shadowy place in the forest of our hearts
Where we run away from nothingness
Things that break us apart.
An endless sea of fleshy leaves, you are forever more to roam
The trees give shade and company to any who may come
For inside ourselves, in everyone, we are never alone

There is an oasis of our parts
It is where our blood goes and there our emotion starts
Follow roots to the tree of life where music can be heard
A steady rhythm of beats and thumps that calms all of the birds
Run down the path, swim the river red and full of gems
Upstream to the coral reef of thoughts
There is where emotion happens and where our heart has stopped

Lives move past
And I am last
The world is ever turning

Our hearts have bled
Our eyes are dead
Our bodies slowly burning.

The monster’s skin
Comes from within
This sickness is concerning

The flames eat
What we have left
Slowly we are learning

The Black skin
And death within
Is karma just returning

The hospital takes me
It’s terroristic
Locks me away
Gathers statistic
The doctors poke
Think I’m a joke
They’re all quite sadistic

The walls they speak
Whispering
They talk to me
Insanity
They tell me things
Of guns and rings
let’s end mortality

The stars are blinding
Burns me
The moon it mocks
Spurns me
The trees they turn
Inside it burns
Why am I so lonely?

I stand in this cage
Scared and alone
My mind is unraveled
Harshly undone

Some days its rage
Other days its sad
Most days I think
I’ve gone completely mad

Everything is closing in
The bars and walls all squeeze
Everything that’s left of me
Is infected by disease

The bars tear away my skin
Already slipping off my bones
Yet all of this is happening
inside my heart of stone