DARKENED MIND

Tangled Minds
(Voices of the Tormented and the Demon)

[Female Voice]
See me in the corner while you study there?
I know you did, by your startled glare.

[Male Voice]
Did you sense me lurking in the shadowed air?
I saw you flinch at my cold-eyed stare.

[Female Voice]
See the shadow of insomnia that’s over your head?
How could you not, with its consistence of constant dread?

[Male Voice]
Feel the weight of insomnia, draped like a shroud?
I’ve wrapped it around you, silent but loud.

[Female Voice]
Notice how you lay awake at night.
You curse the ceiling out of spite.

[Male Voice]
See how you toss and turn through the night,
Cursing the void in desperate fright?

[Female Voice]
Hear the sounds that startle you while awake?
I know you do, by your jumpy state.

[Male Voice]
Hear the creaks that echo when you’re wide awake?
Your pulse quickens—it’s your soul I shake.

[Female Voice]
Now hear the sounds that awake you at night?
You must, because you’re sweaty and ready to fight.

[Male Voice]
Now listen to the whispers that rouse your sleep,
Drenched in sweat, from the horrors that creep.

[Female Voice]
See the demons right before bed?
Yes you do, because they haunt your nightmares in your head.

[Male Voice]
See the figures dance at the edge of your sight?
I am their guide through your slumbering plight.

[Female Voice]
You see the people you love at night dying and in pain.
You wake with a wet pillow that is tear-stained.

[Male Voice]
I feed you visions of loved ones in pain,
Watch as you wake, your tears not in vain.

[Female Voice]
You see other people that are tortured in your dreams.
And wonder why this happens and at what means.

[Male Voice]
I craft the nightmares of strangers you meet,
Their agony plays while you writhe in defeat.

[Female Voice]
Now you have seen me at the foot of your bed.
And my very existence torments your head.

[Male Voice]
I perch at the foot of your trembling bed,
Feeding the chaos that swirls in your head.

[Female Voice]
Eyes wide and you struggle to move.
Fear and dread is your room’s attitude.

[Male Voice]
Your eyes are wide, your body won’t move—
I control the air, the fear that’s your groove.

[Female Voice]
Then I disintegrate into a black mist.
I am your brain’s leaky hiss.

[Male Voice]
Then I fade into mist, black and thick,
A fragment of your mind’s cruel trick.

[Female Voice]
You will try to reason your fears with analysis.
But here you are, in your terrified paralysis.

[Male Voice]
You’ll search for reason, for solace, for peace,
But here I reign—in your paralysis, I feast.