Locked Away

With every breath
the dark closes in
and every time you blink
you feel the burn of your sin

you look around
and wonder how you got here
then you remember
you've been drawing closer for year upon year

you pause

a familiar face in the gloom

it shatters
like glass
echoing your doom

that face was a delicate bloom
a passing glimpse of the outside world

many more pass
and many more come
and their motion
leaves you numb

yet still you sit there
locked forever away
locked endlessly
locked without a say

in the dark
in the black
in the horror
and the shadows
that overhead loom

you sit there
locked in your lonely black tomb