Exhale

Stalking my nightmares,
Haunting my dreams,
Mirroring all of lifes uncertainties,
Behind the walls of sleep,
Wrapped in bed sheets,
A ghost in the walls,
With a silent scream,
Painting a portrait,
For an audience of corpses to see,
Mouths sewn shut,
Forked tongue stained in blood,
Beyond the veil,
numbers burnt under my skin of fails,
Living the lie of a bulletproof fairytale,
Standing in smoke,
trying to fix what isn't broke,
Holding my breath,
burying the remains
of the beasts face under my rib cage,
In bottles of anxiety & ink,
In the blink of an eye,
I've over thought
life away,
Trying to inhale,
Forgetting how to exhale...