When thoughts are our downfall

My mind is a safe haven where no one else can go
It's a place where everything I think is only mine to know
I'm safe from people's judgments, except of course; my own
It's a place where I can be just me and simply stay alone
It's a place to cage my sickness, a place to cage my rage
A place to hide these secrets, as slowly, still; I age
Where my warped thoughts can be hidden from everyone I see
From the people who can't understand the essence that is me
A place where I can punish myself for everything I do
A place where still these thoughts I think are memories of you
It's a place to feed the sadness, a place to feed the guilt
Where I can destroy everything, I worked so hard, I built
My thoughts are something that they can't comprehend
Where my fragile open soul works so hard not to mend
It's a place that I keep safe, a place that I guard well
For inside this open mind of mine, is my own little hell