Arose

Suffocating in darkness As a diseased light paved my way I attempted to scale the barriers That separated me from the outside where life thrived But the walls grew taller, thicker And the treacherous climb worsened For the only light that seeped through the icy iron bars Was painted with a thick coat of gloom And it was with an audible click That you imprisoned me in this asylum of hysteria And there I was left powerless as the pieces of my humanity vanished But as a person of this world I practiced the significance of my being Chipping away the gloom as waves of pure light poured in Unmasking the walls that you once built to snare me in your hell of lunacy Unmasking my only path to freedom I climbed the walls to that menacing lock that taunted me for so long And hearing it click open I felt the death of your dreadful wrath For what followed were the walls As they came crashing down And down down down they fell As I... As I arose in Triumph