Dawn cracks the skies Yet another bleak day Through bloodshot eyes Existential visions Of my former Ravaged tribulation Is what remains Decrepitude and pain Distress within Master of depression This cell, my home Lassitude's cold thrall Feeble and weak To breathe enerves a toll Lithium's balm Still the sewers of mind Bound in torment Four walls divined as hell A deadend mind Sever my final hope... Forlorn and cold Sanity cedes Madness streams forth Carving my tome 'Pon walls and flesh... Bleed the rage... from spilled veins Tales of woe... an insane scrawl Stained tiles and splattered walls Reflect the maddening crawl Lopsided smile; impassive eyes Wounds deeper than my grave Voices silenced... penance served Weakened pulse... shallow breath No redemption... fodder for worms A rigid shell now left behind Padded womb... my epitaph Transmogrified into the void...