I Plead Insanity

Voices screamed out from the walls that closed in,
I murmured to quiet my heads constant spin,
A blade dripped with blood on the ground,
Drip, drip, drip, all running down
Hot and thick it covered my hands,
It burned on my skin like desert sands.

My soul had swallowed hell,
And somehow survived to tell,
Fumigating heavily over with scum,
My brain would lock out all memory to come,
Of how I got here, what I'd done,
Chasing thoughts I could not outrun,
I saw the eyes of horror fixate unto my being,
I heard the tearing flesh before remember seeing.

So many faces! All holding so many faces more,
I scratch to etch my way through the closed door,
But they held me captive here within my cell,
For years and years, how long I cannot tell,
Tormented by my faces within,
Trapped with me, beneath my very skin.

Tear out muscles, reaching for what is real,
Weak with over emotion, I no longer feel,
The only way out is to go back in,
The answers to my mind lie therein,
Chaotic deranged ever circling of thought,
Demolishing my meaning, against which I fought,
Determined to know the limits of my humanity,
Forever struggling conflict, I plead insanity.