Chasing my Demons.

Chasing my demons into the past
Letting them slip through the cracks
A demon awaits on the other side
A demon awaits inside the mirror
Chasing my skeletons into the closet
letting them slip just past my grasp
following endless into the gray
following hopeless into the fray
something haunting beneath the skin
pulling me,
pulling me,
pulling me apart
ripping at the inside, nothing you can see
This is just a part of me
that's begging to be free
The darker side that's locked away
The harsher side that rarely speaks
The silent side that haunts my dreams
The bitter side that burns with rage
The sadder side that hides away
The timid side that shies from light
The rigid side that will not bend

The aspect of a man that's torn
Just torn between self and soul
Something lost in transmission
something lost by the hands of time
chasing these demons they never stop
Never catching up always they slip away
The skeletons are watching me
they Know I'm wearing thin.
They can see the end of me
Just beneath my skin
haunting me and changing me
lost inside my heart.
Attack of the sides that you never see
begging fighting clawing to be free.
Tearing their way from the depths of my soul
Laying siege to the castle I've built
A castle of sand becomes a castle of glass
the heat of the fire inside melting it down
Lost on the inside, the castle may fall
Lost just beneath all of the rubble
Rising up Rebuild, then stand
Chasing my demons into my past.
Following as the take me back
Letting the slip when I get close
Chasing forever, Chasing my shadow.