Screaming on the Inside
© 2026 I always wondered how you could not know about the monster in your head who'd come and go and if he was looking out through your gaze biding his time as you went through your days what unlocked the hell where he was kept through the darkened rooms he slowly crept you would lock the doors to keep us safe while wicked walked your walls the godless grew inside your gates for many years I would not talk in case the wrong words would open his door I could not breathe couldn't find the air didn't want to look in case he was there I froze in time sending my mind down to the Kingdom of Shadows far underground and I'd return to shattered glass on the floor evil dripping with the blood down the wall you died of a broken heart before I could ask how you could not know the demon in your past the nights you woke up sweating time you lost, forgetting was memory trying to push through and warn of the monster in you no, I could not ask I ran for years with a smile glued on hidin...