In Sanity

I am the prisoner and the prison.

Here peace I seek from deep in sanity,

From pain that stems from deep inside of me.

And as I’ve fallen far to find this cell,

I've sat and watched my mind become my hell.

Convulsive thoughts, they thrash in sanity.

Thoughts, broken, can't perceive “reality.”

I know that “real” is just a happy lie,

And lost in here, in sanity, I die.

You see those happy masks outside this cell?

In here, this cruel mind’s walls, they scream, they yell.

In here, my pain cracked walls, they say to me:

They look inside and say, “In sanity.”

My mind: the madhouse; these words: my mute screams.

And I, in here, too deep, in sanity.