An Exit

Cold hands drag me down

Tear me from this place

Warmth stripped from my skin

Light drains from my face

The dark turns to me

Looking in my eyes

All my vile features

Exposed from the inside

I keep falling back

I'm surrounded by only empty space

I'm so afraid

I keep falling back

I reach out for you

Only empty space

I'm so afraid

My sunken eyes are barren

As barren as the earth

Around me there is nothing

The nothing I deserve

Withering like an autumn leaf

The skin starts to decay

Lost inside an emptiness

Engulfed in endless grey

Am I just a visitor

Or left here to reside?

Lost inside an empty space

With nothing left in sight

Have I found my refuge?

Or has everything I wished for been placed into my reach?

Is my passage now complete?

Shadows start to shimmer

They swirl around my sight

My cold limbs become frozen

I gasp for air as breath turns to ice

Shadows start to shimmer

They swirl around, around my sight

My cold limbs become frozen

I gasp for air as breath turns to ice

They take my hand and lead me away

Will they take me somewhere else or force me to stay?

The darkness finally takes its form

And guides me to the gates

Shrieking as they open

A glimpse into my fate

A hand upon my shoulder

Turns me towards a light

Bleeding through fragments of a new

A new life

Am I just a visitor

Or left here to reside?

Lost inside an empty space

With nothing left in sight

Have I found my refuge?

Or has everything I wished for been placed into my reach?

Is my passage now complete?

The light I saw before is now devouring me

I'm burned by the sound, I'm deafened by the heat