Brain on Fire

My brain

On fire

My fingers

Clawing at my skin

“Out,out”

GET IT OUT!

This madness

It crawls in my skull

Little prickly things

A din of echoes fills my ears

It’s so loud I think I might scream

Out into the night

At the rain, I scream

I yell at it to turn around

Go back where you came from

There is no use for you here

For I am already drenched

With sweat and tears

Oh would you look at that

Just a pretty little bed

Made up for me

Knives and all

And I am feeling oh so tired

This smile

How much longer do I have to wear it?

But

There is this light

I swear I see it

So far away

It looks like light

Glistening off a tiny

Ripple in the middle

Of the dark ocean

I am surrounded by waves

I am clawing my way

To the surface

All I need to do is

Follow that light

But the cacophony in my head

Makes me forget

That if I could just remember how to get out of here

If the crawling and the screaming

Could all just stop for a moment

I might be able to remember

But the light is shrinking

Further into the distance

And those waves keep crashing 

And I’m getting so tired