CONSUMED

Oh how I feel, so utterly trapped
having suddenly fallen into a nightmare's tormenting abyss
as a hopeless vagabond who is lost between to worlds of light
swallowed by recollections about a once visited landscape
now relived as a mental forest of tall, dark menacing talons
totally immersing my mind in the foreboding haze of uncertainty
and haunted by the sense of being unable to find a mystical guidepost
leading any towards utopia or purgatory.

Beyond the suffocating surroundings of macabre shadows
crawling across my footsteps like tarantulas
I can only see a murky and dim horizon
while the caustic stickers of fear's crippling toxins
slowly poisons each fragile thread of my sanity.

Muscles begin to burn from the vigil stance of feeling utterly lost,
my heart pounds from the inflaming in gut burning agony
fueling my futility ache over searching for any escape.

Between the distant charred fingers of these hellish inner woods
there can be felt the languishing presence of other confused travelers
equally imprisoned in this grotesque wasteland of hope.

Above the leaden sky bleeds with the putrid stench of angst
killing any prayers for relief or release.

Step by step I still plod towards obscurity and oblivion hospices
knowing my path of pall shall bring to my anorexic sense of esteem
another of resignation's breath for a soul,
consumed.