Demon flowers may be on the bloom
When you let your troubles
Control and over power you
With their gloom

Time in my youth
Was a constant
Search for truth
Searching through a mind altering haze
Using the excuse
"I was doing it to learn life's secret ways"

Truth be known,
To not all,
Yet to some,
I was just exploring life
To have fun!!

This may sound
Like the good Ole' days
As I get older
I reach the end of The Demon Flower Phase

I took a close encounter
With the ruler of the dark domain
I'd been walking down his path
Oh, so long,
I didn't even know it
He had me under the mirage
I was happy,
Oh, and so very ******!!

Evil wears a mask to disguise
The extent of the hideousness
Of all the sin,
So that the people walking
In darkness will stay within

It took a literal slam to my brain
To wake me to the power
That will sustain
I have finally came to a realization

I had been raised in shadow
Fed on a diet of shame
I willingly
Hid myself away
I was helpless to change

Darkness was all that I knew
It literally took a slam
Of the brain
For me to give acceptance/
Realization of
Our Father to see me through