Stumbling through the darkest places
in my mind, vast and gloomy expanses
where grim things screech
threatening obscenities and the floor
is coated in blood, I lose my footing
in that crimson river and slip, sliding past
the thousand terrifying figures teeming
constantly just out of sight, until
I notice one glimmer of light
flare up just before me in the void
and reaching for it in desperate hope
I scream as my hands curl around it
and I burn into ash, spread to fill the
space, joining the atmosphere and
choking all those demons into stillness,
then fall into the blood and soak it up,
until nothing is left but an empty peace.