What voice taunts me
here in the nighttime hours?
“Be gone demon so I command!”
Have pity on my mind
for it shrinks, folds and cowers.
“Be still at once I do demand!”
You have come to possess me
and then slowly fade away.
Will you not leave before the night is through?
Tormentor, wretched fiend!
Come to bleed and slay.
“Depart!' I scream. “I will not answer you.”
I cannot see your face.
Yet still you cut me with your knife.
“Hear me! I say be still!”
My brain befuddled, mesmerized
and now I fear for my very life.
Could the cure, be in that pill?
On and on you plague my soul.
You grate the fiber of my brain.
“Retreat and leave me in peace!”
Still through the darkness you haunt
until I believe I've gone insane.
“I beg you spirit desist and cease.”