A darkened world where vapours rise
Steam exhaling from a mountain side
The soil as dark as black can be
The same can be said of the sky and the sea
There, a shadow in sweat does stand
A screamer in yell in an open land
Nothing omits the vocal stream
Silence surrounds in chaotic beams
Shattered in body, in a tortured state
No escape from the land of darkened fate
Fists once clenched in determined rage
Now jammed inside a psychological cage

I open my eyes a reality dawns
Returning my life to a world of norm
The sight I saw was not just a vision
But the soul inside in quiet collision
The outer does speak in smiles and chat
An attempted coup to hide true fact
The inner is trapped in tortured pain
The darkness within grows to gain
A power to crush this reality facade
Yet stern in denial the outer stays hard
Like a moulded clot of reshaped clay
Firm from the oven this mask will stay
A hidden world of inner thoughts
Can never rise in admission of sorts
For to rise and appear, a challenge too tall
The outer pretends while the inner shall fall
The hidden world shall hide its throes
Imprisoned by a darkness self imposed.