Arbitrary Asylum

INMATE

Entombed in every broken soul

Looms a light-forsaken place

Contorting, breaking, taking toll

Leaving scars without a trace

Twinkle, twinkle little light

Where are you heading to tonight?

Mirrors mirror lock and key

When the warden sets the pace

And everybody not on edge

Is taking too much space

Twinkle, twinkle light of morn

My edges frayed my fabric torn

WARDEN

Your mind implies selective order

Stop struggling let new worlds emerge

Unpleasant, unproductive dreams

Obstruct your duty to cohere

Wake at the sound

INMATE

The padding looks peculiar here

Prowling patterns haunting hues

While from a different realm it turns

Its dull yet lurid screws

Beyond the creeping shadows roam

Our torments intertwine

I rave I crave to tear it down

Be their friend and dance

WARDEN

Each inmate died within these walls

And trails the padding all alone

A maze of pain if wandered once

Releases nevermore

Step away now

And still you resist the cold voice of reason

In God's name I will slaughter the savage in your soul

You are the last

You are my masterpiece

INMATE

Count the animal's legs and prepare to suffer its claws

THE LAST

Cascading darkness beckoned

A serpentine line joined the lost

As one leaves another may arrive

In this world at last

Truly the last

THE FALLEN

As bones return to dust

And skin crumbles to ash

From sanguine soil

Only insanity will bloom

When you have neither won nor lost

And you are not alive or dead

The only wish worth waiting for

Is for the clock to reach its end