Stranger Inside Poem by J M. Basey

I'm stuck in my corner
With no way out
Nobody pays any attention
No matter how loud I scream

I'm lost within myself
I'm lost without myself
What a cruel contradiction
Yet I'm stuck in my corner

Nightmares begin to fill my mind
Being alone, abandoned, left to rot
Fading away with memories of a life
That started off so innocently

Which became infected
By a putrid poison
That slowly fills my body
With black decaying blood

Turning me against
My family and friends
Making me hate myself
Making me love myself
Simultaneously

Taking the pain out on myself
Slicing open my frail wrists
Feeling the ecstasy
Of the pain

Once again
I'm lost within myself
I'm lost without myself
Life has now ended

The poison blood has taken over
I step out of the darkness
And into the light
No longer will there be
A stranger inside

By Jay Basey © 2007