Vortex of Madness

Whirling, swirling, swiftly

Madness stranger creeps in

planting subliminal messages

of insanity into my mind

the voices, the voices

mindless masked intruder

digging graves of no meaning

finger hooked into my wall

in insane dots of fractured thought.

Whirling, swirling, swiftly

Stranger absorbs me, takes me away

caterwauling rhymes of madness

ebony rocks striking my face

unpredictable fire - sweet and sour

elevator erupting up but never stopping

dressing me with mad sparkled wreaths

blinks of delusion smite my eyes

spinning, spinning out of control.

Whirling, swirling, swiftly

Nonsense words scar my festering soul

moonlight falls out of loveless sky

collapsing into sunken eyes of mine.

dried up barren well, I lick my lips

feeling nothing, locked in darkness

heartbeat freezes, I don’t breathe

craziness prevails as I sigh softly

we are not so different at all.

Whirling, Swirling, Swiftly

Insanity is earth, twisted and fractured

marigolds marching, invading, closing ranks

madness is genius, kicking and screaming

bones jabbed with pain, without release

cemented feeling encasing my blackness

obsessed with death, don’t know where I am.

blooms of craziness hurled by stranger

infiltration of fogginess, flowing madness

mind wanderer lost in struggle evermore

out, out damned spot, blood on my hands.