Ever since I can remember I’ve had a hole,

The size of a pin prick inside of my soul,

I try to fight back but life is taking its toll,

Standing face to face with the Devil,

I realize I need to surrender, relinquish control,

Before the demons inside make me their forever home,

I used to feel all alone till I went deeper into my darkness and made it my own,

Been living there for so long,

My heart has hardened and turned to stone,

Beating to the rhythm of the dark unknown,

The demons always hide in the shadows but I hear them moan,

They try to scare me by making it known that I’m never alone,

But they don’t know about the fire that burns in my bones.

I’ve been battling demons all my life,

They don’t know what I’ve had to do to survive,

How many of them I cut out with a bloody pocket knife,

The remnants of all the tears from my fears mingled and entwined,

I don’t know how but now my fire burns colder than ice,

It’ll rain down from the nebulous skies,

Like a flash of hot white light it’ll burn their eyes and scorch them twice,

My demons think they own the night,

Lurking in the shadows they got me in their sights,

I realize since I’ve relinquished my control, I no longer need to fight,

They maybe the shadows that block the light,

But I am the Dark in which they hide.

In the dark side of light, I made my home out of hell,

I ripped down the bars, broke out of that cell,

My pain turned into scars, that serve me well,

Stitched up my heart, when it was tired and frail,

Now I can let down my guard, as my fate is sealed with a tenpenny nail,

Sending chills down Satan Blvd, with every breath I inhale,

For I can tear them apart, surgically down to minute detail,

Then I realized the my heart has a heart with the power to feel,

With every step on the earth I impart, love I need to heal,

To close my eyes and face the dark, realize I’m not only mentally ill,

Just a product of behind the scene’s rot that can’t be caught, shot or killed,

Stop looking for what’s not, take what is and rebuild,

Love what’s in us that we fought so hard against and forgot, it’s only by becoming whole, can we ever hope to have the life of a wish fulfilled!!

—TerrySalmon—