Beg and Bleed ( answer to a challenge to describe insanity)

I’ll Beg and Bleed

If the world is illusion

And illusion is madness

The fear of heaven and hell

Cast a most ominous spell

Over every weakened breath

Filled with remorse and memory

Fear of the hideous monster, death

And missed, most treasured comradery.

Come, break my window for me

So I won’t see the shadow of what I fear.

Come, break my mirror for me

So I won’t see the reflected horror of what I hear.

Please don’t leave me alone

In my world of illusion

When illusion is nothing.

When I am nothing

And I am alone.

© 2008 C. Harter Amos