Mental anguish is filled with fears of disapproval Never was I accepted in your eyes With diminishing feelings of joy, you were never satisfied Always the cup close to your mouth, so we could never see you spill a drop Frightened with the thought of whether I would even awaken To dream reality, like an overdose waiting A full collapse To finally make something shine in your eyes A heartbeat ticks with timeless thoughts running around We crowd and begin to look down To see you embedded without a thorn crown Are we disfigured in these eyes? Are we the ones that create such stutter? How do we awaken a beast, when all we have is one last wish? Suffocating the last wishes and demands you could never let go I could finally overcome the atrocities that once held me back Staring into the eyes of the ones that beguiled me To rape and forget the ones you love, a life your too familiar with