The Hourglass

Lights are flickering
I'm unsure of what I'm doing
Sky collapsing I can't breathe
The abyss stares back at me

Silent tormentor casting a veil over my world
Lately I am barely there
A voice that goes unheard

Ceaseless time
Upon a gear I am crucified
In the hourglass buried alive
Forever at war with the night

I am eclipsed
Shadows upon these eyelids
Prove hell exists
A need to be relentless one moment of rest and I may drop dead
I'd be reclining underneath the blade of a guillotine
Some minds offer sulfur instead of luxury

Underneath reality
The weight is maddening
Fleeting darkness entombing me
Graveless in obscurity

Weightlessness
Suspended in mist
Clouding my vision
Mirages in the silence
Whispering to my consciousness

Ceaseless time
Upon a gear I am crucified
In the hourglass buried alive
Forever at war with the night

I am eclipsed
Shadows upon these eyelids
Prove hell exist
A need to be relentless one moment of rest and I may drop dead
I'd be reclining underneath the blade of a guillotine
Some minds offer sulfur instead of luxury

Welcome home
To a place where no one belongs
Eternal rabbit hole
A journey to nowhere at all

Murky Waters of Tartarus
Avatar of hopelessness
Disappear in the descent
Staring up at ocean depths

Unbelievable
Pressure now crushing my skull
Lungs collapse
Vision black
As I'm swallowed whole

Outside the passage of life
Grinded right down to the Rhine
Taken by the tide
Gravity calls and I abide

Ceaseless time
Upon a gear I am crucified
In the hourglass buried alive
Forever at war with the night

I am eclipsed
Shadows upon these eyelids
Prove hell exists
A need to be relentless one moment of rest and I may drop dead
I'd be reclining underneath the blade of a guillotine
Some minds offer sulfur instead of luxury