Swallowing Circles (Schizophrenia)

Endless nightmare, nightmare, nightmare

       Eyelids pried open, open, open

       crouching, crouching in corner

       shaking, I'm dead, dead, dead.

Can't shut my brain off, off, off

       thoughts growing tendrils

       looping, looping onto reflections.

Ivy, Ivy, tangling like ivy

       can't see the tree, tree, tree

       hovering fog, fog, fog.

Phones shriek, shriek, shriek

       painful hurting pitches

       skull breaks apart, apart

       thought, thought octopuses.

Wading in boots, boots, boots

       pools, pools of molasses

       insides falling out, out, out.

Slashed my feet, feet, feet

       pour, pour out despair

       people cowering, cowering

       cameras watching on corners.

Freezing cold, cold, cold

       skin boiling, boiling inside

       inferno of flames, flames.

TV flickers, flickers, flickers

       confusing noises pounding

       paranoia falls, falls, falls

       off shelves of my brain, brain.

Can't translate my world, world, world

       symbols and echoes, echoes

       euphoria waves, waves, waves

       at sunken anxiety, anxiety.

My third eye, eye, eye

       won't leave me alone, alone

       crushed feelings of conspiracy

       paints swirling ideas, ideas

       in pieces of vision, vision, vision.

Distorted perceptions, perceptions, perceptions

       races of fragmentation, fragmentation

       defiled faces with fangs, fangs, fangs.

Swallowed, running, running, running

       concentric circles, circles

       drowning in raging, raging

       waters of my mind, mind, mind.