sleep listening to insanity
dream of losing vanity

want something not there
feel sad through every hair

being so very far away
nothing matters today

mind so very far from here
this drives out a solitary tear

opened heart so easy to pluck
closed heart so easily struck

music numbs me
so deaf I can see

not good to cause any pain
try to cure everyone in vain

mortality is just my being
death ultimately, I'm seeing

make the light shy
dark, will go the sky

leave me here to rot
because that's what I've got

that and these thoughts, in a word
I say with love, have you heard?

this has taken years to complete
this one was no simple feat

but I will not give in
in the end, I win

this poems rhymes will be done
the prize? guess what, you've won

for the message within is the key
told "not to turn", do you know me?

I defy what I can, for the good
take it all back, if I could

but its too late now, you see
for you have read it, thanks to me

don't regret anything in the past
as long as you learn from it, at last

twist the meaning, to what you need
then your soul can begin to feed

the death of the old
can bolster the bold

bring about wondrous things
let the world begin to sing

metaphoric message is not so clear?
but if you listen, you just might hear

the words keep going
the meaning, flowing

but at the end of it all
will you rise, or fall?