Asylum of my Mind

Jun 3

“Asylum of my Mind” by Madeleine Stein

In the asylum of my heart,

Where shadows play their game

A melancholic whisper calling out my name

Trapped inside this cage where love has turned to pain

Lonely is the silence, echoing the same

“Run, girl, run.”

I’m only one girl, one

In the cage of your embrace, I’m lost and I’m afraid

In the lonely darkness, my spirit starts to fade

Asylum of my mind, where the tears are never dry

In this tempest of a haze, I’m left to wonder why

Promises were prisons and our friendship was a lie

In the echoes of your anger, I learned how to cry

Your touch became a weapon, your words a sharpened blade

Trembling with trepidation from the shadows that you made

You’ve gotta kill me faster

My life’s a penniless disaster

But somewhere in the darkness,

A spark begins to glow

A whisper of a future,

Where I can finally go

The worst kind of betrayal

Ain’t from a foe

It’s the kind of knife that comes from

Someone you already know

So here’s to the broken, the burdened, and the brave

We serve to the people we look up to as a melting slave

It’s 3 years later and I’m finally saved

I hope that they’re still hunting me to my grave

But I still have sudden shocks

Nightmares of cages and iron-twisted locks

The spirits of you can no longer hunt me

But I hope they don’t know that they still haunt me

Anneka Hoek

Ghosts