Lost Within

 Can you hear it, the silence.

The voices from the closet.

The screams from the dark.

They call, come come come.

Why do I find myself drawn,

Succumbing magnetized to the terror?

Tik tap the sound from a distance.

Squash splash water pours to drown me.

Above water I struggle to stay.

Still breathing but my head separated.

From the drowning body.

I have ascended but still down.

Feeling heavy and light.

Not free as a bird to fly away.

My legs stone tied.

Can’t outrun the approaching darkness.

Pull me, rescue me.

For the string holds tight on my neck.

If I cut it down the bottom pit I go.

I am powerless and lost.

Who shall aid me to light?

For far away I am pulled.

Should I linger and hold tight,

Or perhaps Noah’s ark already shut?