Reality's Hell

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I ran to you during the night

Hoping you'd steal my heart with your passion

But you were hiding where I was blind to see

In your own self illussionment

I searched for you -

Vainly.

With eyes tired from crying

I screamed out your name

But only Echo whispered it back in my ear

Filling my head with my own quivering voice

I prayed desperately to a god

Who was dead before he was born,

To lead me to you

But mocking laughter answered my pleas...

Driving me to the cliff of Insanity

Urging me to jump,

But I lingered on the edge

Looking over into the abyss.

Staring into Infinity's black eyes

I waited for a sign from you.

A sign that would pull me back from this hell I've created,

But I only saw the twisted face

Of the dead god hovering in front of me

Pulling my soul apart

Piece by painful piece

Grinning with his laughing eyes

His voice only mocking my own whimpers of

Fear,

  Pain,

     Emptiness,

And Isolation.

I began to laugh at you then.

Giving up on ever finding you

I laughed at you madly

Standing on Insanity's cliff

This dead god's mockery

Becoming the marrow in my bones.

But I loved you still...

Even when Infinity started grabbing at my ankles

And I continued to cry your name

Needing something to hang on to

Even if that something isn't real

But in a world of dead gods

Where they laugh at their own childrens' misery

And in a world where you're afraid to sleep at night

Because Insanity's cold, smooth fingers

Might choose you as their next victim

To wrap themselves around your neck

Telling you Infinity will take care of you

How can that be reality?

But how can it not

When you've seen nothing different

And there's no escape

~Amy L. Herbert

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