Names circle around me
fluttering in my brain.
They’re as vast as I can see
and yet they still cause me pain.
As far as I know,
these names are as old as time
and they won’t let me go
my mind is no longer mine
They yell and yell and yell
I can never make them stop.
I think I am in hell,
I might take the drop
I feel as if I keep
a billion people in my mind.
They won’t let me sleep
I am forever confined
To my living hell
and all its prisons
All I can do in my cell
is listen.