Danger Zone
By Craig Stellpflug
©Copyright 2006 all rights reserved

Wallowing where the demons of rejection run deep
Clinging desperately for the threads of sanity to keep
I could breech the dark despair if I would only try
Lacking the will to live and yet I don’t want to die

Mocking images ripple endlessly in my mind
Their cruel laughter does with the ghoulish shrieks combine
Death whispers offering a cold quiet in my ear
“Hurry to me now my child, you have nothing to fear”

Death’s bony fingers like tentacles caress my face
My very soul shudders in its sirenous embrace
My breathing is shallow over my heart’s lab’rous beat
Dark sickness does my feverish mind and will deplete

Anguished memories pierce my heart like daggers of steel
Fiendish regrets make all of reality surreal
There is no one around me as I cry out alone
And nobody sees when I enter the danger zone