Loneliness

There are voices in my head As I lie in the darkness Louder than the ticking clock A persistent monotone filling up the space The room is dense, with the fog That surrounds me from all sides Invisible and static I’m cut off from the flux of time Darkness descends over the heart Admitting not a single beam of light Plunged in ghostly silence The house groans Distant and faint, all sounds reach me I close my eyes But they won’t let me sleep The moments crawl, the fears assail my heart And the shadows of the night deepen In and around the house Images rise up, from the past I thought I had buried deep Future looms large, cloaked in black shroud They all flash upon my eye The things I did or didn’t do Through the darkness I see them for what they are Pale and dusky, without the sunlight My heart cries out, For the loneliness to die For the dawn to break