The Devil In Me

Hello! This was inspired by my long time internal struggles which came out in form of words. Very new to writing hence not much polish so please bear with me.

Sleep embraces me as the world sway

I wait for a dream to take me away

 

A hallway greets and the floor creaks

The dark pushes me deeper into this labyrinth

 

At the end a figure stands

Trapped in a painting, crying with bloody hands

 

The eyes are red like the hand clutching his chest

He seems to be in a lot of pain

 

Taking in his sorry state, I wonder what happened to him

How can he be helped

 

Looking for clues, I see his smile

So out of place, it was senile

 

That moment everything changed,

He was not someone who could be helped

 

His eyes twinkled not just with tears but something evil and deceiving

The hand at his chest not just clutching but clawing

 

Devil, devil I scream and run

Trying to make sense of what just happened

 

The dream shatters as I flee,

I look in the mirror and see the same sad eyes staring back at me.

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