stuck

Caged within bonds of bone

Aches a thrashing heart

Spiteful and merciless

To sleepless eyes and leaden limbs

Murky darkness presses hard

Yielding little solace

Beneath the crushing weight

Bows the weathered spine

Upon a humbled back

The lashes never stop

A poison to imagination

All so devastatingly mundane

Infected by a crazed heart

Grieving what never comes

The frightened mind becomes ensnared

Drowning in its own creation

A sea of darkness

Swallows the withered soul

Combated by a light so dim

A single candle on the darkest night

Bedraggled hands thrust upward

Fighting to reach that light

A promise for something better

A guide within the mist

The glow grows larger

Any escape is heaven

Ragged bone grows hostile

Fighting for what could be