I venture below as the wooden floor creaks beneath me
Surrounded by nothingness and filled with emptiness
Raising my lamp, a ray of light pierces through the darkness
Revealing to me a blood and tear stained wall upon my heart
Etchings of what came before, infinitely consuming my being
The Night swiftly chains me and extinguishes all hope
My will, now grown sullen, tarries awaiting the abyss of despair
Panicked, I force myself to rip away from the phantoms
And begin sprinting through the looping corridor
Until somehow unimaginably I face a dead end
A crooked dream, now nightmare, as I turn and face
The monster unshackled, my eternal shadow to which I\'m bound
It\'s skin bearing reflections, it serves, no it is my Past
Now the millionth time I had been cornered by the beast
So far, it had claimed me as its own, caging any fluttering future
Instead, I reach out and grasp it, all of it and everything
The frost creeping up my mind, the shadows trailing close behind, the questions with answers I cannot find, and the sins to which I must bind
A fire explodes, burning away the pages that I sought
For me, an ashen grave left to remember on the paths of time
The Door finally appears
I step through and simply behold