The Music Of Madness

It wasn't always like this1

Once there was life on earth
There was blue in the sky
There was green on the land
And my music was clearer than the waters of the sea2

Then the madness sets in3

The sky soiled red from the blood of a thousand stars committing suicide
The stars fall to earth
The trees hear the thunder and shake
I shake too
My music is dying4

No longer is it clear, no longer is it clean
Stained red with star-blood, steaked with bloody mud and decay
And as the music fades
The fear rises within me5

The horrifying fear
It jumps at me with a shout of rage
Tears at my eyes with claws of black steel6

I run7

It follows8

I run to my sanctuary9

It chases me10

I am backed into a corner
My arms over my face
Covered in wounds from the black claws
Wounds that aren't there yet are
The fear screams at me
It screams and I want to die11

I open my arms and beg the fear to kill me12

But it doesn't
The fear slices my eyes out
Severs my only link to the light
I can see it clearly now in the darkness13

The fear is a beast of flame and hatred
Claws and teeth and eyes cover its body
Its scorpion tail lashes at me with its poison
It eyes burn sores into my mind
Its teeth bite and gnash and fill me with disease14

This is fear.15

I am afraid.