Self-absorption eating away at the fibers of my being All my essence being extracted by stabbing needles forever feeding I open my eyes to see the room spinning around me As a malicious static is ripping through my head I call out to God above and in return I hear nothing But the sounds of my voice echoing in this empty room I have been condemned to suffering within my own mind This blackness forever consuming me on the inside Now My body jolts as I rise from my bed These blackened thoughts consuming all that remains in my head All the light being extracted from me An absence overtaking my body This perversion of a sickened mind Wiped of substance, leaving nothing behind Leaving nothing behind Unable to recognize what I now see An abstraction of what was my reality Hallucinations showing me my own demise Surveying the forlorn landscape while my vision fails me slowly I strip back the layers of film shrouding my eyes In an attempt to see clearly, but all revealed is unholy As I awaken I begin to writhe The smell of blood jolts my senses as I regain conscious thought I begin to scan this empty room for ways of escape The dimensions not what once they were, I navigate these narrow halls Traversing what seems like an eternity stretched before me Reaching the end I step out into the horizon No longer are there walls containing me Above I see a malevolent blackness Despair I am still within this dream