Sanity

No matter how hard I try

I just can’t justify

What I’m doing, why I’m here

Why I try dealing with this fear

Day in and day out

The same old shit makes me shout

At the top of my lungs I scream into the night

It doesn’t help, just helps me put up with this fight

I’ve lost all reason, all feeling and care

I only wake up cause I dare to dare

I do not sleep yet I go to bed every night,

Tossing and turning, so I write by candlelight

I live each day in fear of the next

I keep feeling this life is a test

If it is I have failed, I have been expelled

Everyone has a story, and this story they tell

I find it hard to live; I find it hard to deal

When the world around me is a big spinning wheel

In this rat race we call life, we are ruled by fate

Who is it that controls us? Who opens the gate?

I live each day on the edge, my sanity breaking

While everything surrounds me is constantly faking

I dream about life, and I live in a dream

I wake up only to hear myself scream

The bane of my life, are those memories of pain

Every time I remember I get whipped with a cane

They hinder my future, they hinder my choices

They are what gave rise to these voices

As I lay here at night, in the dark, I am tired

But they do not sleep it’s as though they are fired

They obstruct my sleep, they obstruct my day

I feel slowly, my mind, my sanity fray