Scraping, screeching nails for chalk, Searing tears of guilt and pain, Screaming, shouting, and remorse, Yesterday we see again. Escape is my artful trade, Doors and windows, bells of shame; "You're afraid, aren't you?" I say. "But my dear it's just a game." Yes, the silence does respond With its voice inside my mind, "Game over and it all will end, The truth of you is left behind." I deliberate with him, He knows not of intention, But yet of course he can sense My morbid apprehension. I pace - I pace - up and down, My mind at me is screaming, And silence' voice is cold again, "It will not be redeeming." I wish I could be alone In quiet without silence, Yet they all continue on To take away my one chance. To them it is an unjust cause To end what has been given, But I have never asked for this - Insanely I am driven Beyond the edge of boundaries To somewhere I am not there, And slowly I lift off my knees And fall into my nightmare. Headfirst I plunge into the depth Of cold and icy violence, The ground rushes to meet me And vanishes - the silence.