Mind Burns Alive

A glaze of sweat and kerosene Will glisten like the rain I've pored across the burning thoughts To find the only way That I can let you know A proclamation of the the pain The searing brand inside my head So firmly held in place My mind has ignited I can feel it burning down Watch and wonder as the embers glow If my flame can be put out The graceful notes, the sacred smoke Will soon perfume the air I will run to you as final proof How deeply that I care To put every wrong to right You need a sacrificial lamb Shades of orange and red leaping out of my head Encompass what I am My mind has ignited I can feel it burning down Watch and wonder as the embers glow If my flame has been put out My mind has ignited I can feel it burning down Watch and wonder as the embers glow If my flame has been put out

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Something else inside You're not there Replaced your eyes With empty glass spheres Crooked, hungry urge Needs to feed Countless empty words Fail to mask the constant need Promised it's alright When you disappeared into the night Long time ago They slipped their fingers in Now in dark corners You still fear wickedness Demons in your head With no defenses Those you leave behind Always suffer the consequences You tell me you wanna run Wanna free yourself from pain But the demons haunting you Hold you in this place Glimpses of who you might be Revealed through the haze Contrast stark reality Signals sent from the smoke of a life ablaze Searching to find Something to hold A place to hide In a world so cold Looking for a way to survive A way to survive A way to survive The weight of your life You tell me you wanna run Wanna free yourself from pain But the demons haunting you Hold you in this place Glimpses of who you might be Revealed through the haze Contrast stark reality Signals sent from the smoke of a life ablaze

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

I formed these callouses To guard against the fears I find Ones deeply hidden In all those places that I shield inside I've always felt alone Inside a room with curtains drawn With just a sliver Of radiance from coming dawn So let the record show Should I ever lose control Without sure footing Along this path I chose On the day I break Just sweep the pieces all away Let them scatter I don't need an after Adorned with callouses Countless hours march in line As they harden Cracks surround where fears reside Like a fabric wearing thin The warp and weft of all I've dreamed Is growing threadbare It's plainly tearing at the seams So let the record show Should I ever lose control Without sure footing Along this path I chose On the day I break Just sweep the pieces all away And let them scatter I don't need an after

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Blighted realm lies through many doors Buried deep in shadow Rage and despair hangs in the air Once burgeoning, now gone fallow There are those, time and again Who get lost somewhere within Invaded by thoughts and led astray Drawn into delusion We tread upon departed dreams, lying deep under stones Upon lives that were guided to extremes By confusion that is ever found, by forlorn filled with need In the end, did they feel justified in the words they believed? Living disaster With broken hands clawing Betrayed by a madness Upon a soul gnawing Taking everything Lives filled with empty pursuits A fate that keeps us on our knees My mind is empty, too Fill it up with disease With disease

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 26, 2025