Fly Away

I can't escape this reality,

so I search for a different mentality.

Yet I fear I'm losing my mind,

afraid of what I may find

If I look too close. I don't know

where the thoughts go

When they seep away through the cracks

in my skull. Maybe they're what takes me back

To the drowning place. That rioting crowd

tumbling and twisting all screaming so loud

So that I can only hear all or none. 

The haze residing in my brain has blocked out the sun

For so long that I no longer remember the sky.

Somewhere inside someone's been screaming and I never know why. 

I can only hope to whatever god that I don't need wings to fly.