WALL OF FLESH

This has got to be a dream
Some horrible nightmare
Don't tell me this is the real thing...
The only thing

I feel like I'm in a carnival fun house
Stuck in the room full of mirrors
As I glance into that looking glass I see someone
Someone repulsive...
Yet, someone familiar

I turn, trying to get away
But I feel a blow to my face
Then, I hear the glass shatter...
I feel something warm trickling down my neck
And a sudden shout of pain

I didn't think you could feel in a dream…

As I stagger along, all the mirrors start to take face
The walls of glass turn to flesh
They form a circle
I see fingers pointed at me in every direction

My senses are starting to fail
But I can still hear them laughing in the distance
Blood red, the scars on my wrists have torn themselves open

Blood spewing like molten lava
My vision is becoming distorted
I can't support my body anymore
I tremble then crumble to the floor

I thought you couldn't die in a dream…

I attempt to lift this head of mine
It is so heavy, pounding with the rhythm
Of my panicking heart
My neck is stinging with agony
With so much effort and pain I manage to lift
My field of visions slightly

On the left
I see myself young and innocent
On the right
I see myself gray and senile
I know of yesterday
But what of tomorrow?
So much I will never know

Muscle spasms in the lungs
Trying to get oxygen from this thick air
I'm shivering uncontrollably
Satin red everywhere

Your love beat me down
And now I can't get up again

I try to use my legs
I send the signal, but they don't respond
All feeling is gone
All sensation has been drained
I lie sprawled out in the center of this corner-less wall of flesh
Hallucinating now
Fading in and out of reality
Reality ... blackness ... reality ...blackness ...
… blackness …