Clamoring for the light

Ugliness mixed together with deepest fears

Sketchy and vague details all the same tears

Wrap around what you can’t comprehend in full

While demons in the dark paint horrors in your skull

Deprivation madness hammering my head at night

Leaves me sweating, heart racing, clamoring for the light

Random texts, unconnected words leave doubt

Mixed up messages but what’s it all about?

Leaving me in the dust with a mouthful of regrets

Pretty words and promises I guess she just forgets

Deprivation madness hammering my head at night

Leaves me sweating, heart racing, clamoring for the light

Alone staring at the reflection of a dream not materialized

A fantasy of long overdue smiles that were never realized

Days hang in the closet, like those clothes that no longer

Perhaps never to come off the hanger, yet you can’t part

Deprivation madness hammering my head at night

Leaves me sweating, heart racing, clamoring for the light

But I’m in the dark

Tim Windisch

05/01/2024