Madness

I am scared
these words fall from my lips
in a torrent

And I wonder as you read them do you care?
Probably not.
I am just another face
just another poet
like you.

It means nothing
and yet everything

Don't you know you hear my silent scream?
Who am I?
who writes these words that stab me?

that scrawl across the page
reviling more of me.
than I care to have you know
but, maybe, if I write these words
they won't eat me alive
maybe if I get them out
some how I can survive.

I wonder if I'm broken beyond repair
something scarred and hideous
for tonight my demons beckon
sing their seductive song
calling, calling me back down the rabbit hole