No Escape

There is no escape...

There is nowhere to run, there is nowhere to hide

There is no comfort in dreams, I've been there, I've tried

It knows where to find me, there's no refuge, no sanctum

As it walks through those locked doors and appears like a phantom

There is no peace in my head...

There is nowhere to run, I cannot take flight

And the worst is to come when I switch off the light

It's a shape-shifting shadow, it's a ghost made of smoke

It's the insanity inside me that chooses to cloak

There is no hope for my soul...

There is nowhere to hide when I look in the mirror

For the effervescence of life is receding and dimmer

So I stand there and stare and sometimes I'm laughing

Because it's impatiently waiting, as I confuse it with chaffing

There is no respite, so I jump from the fire...

As I slumber it's slinking and opening a gate

And hunting my reveries, with a nightmare the bait

But now it's sluggish and floundering in my paralysed head

For on the flip side of sanity I have chosen to tread

There are increasing moments in time away from its clutches

In the numbing embrace of when insanity touches

For there is nowhere to run and there is nowhere to hide

And there is no comfort in dreams, I've been there, I've tried

...there is no escape