Living with a Monster

Living with a monster inside these walls

Silent steps down shadowed halls

It’s breathing hate it’s breathing fire

My life’s a rope on a funeral pyre

It cracks the whip it feeds on fear

I scream inside but no one hears

Chained to chores no room to stray

My soul is dust swept away

No freedom no time for me

The monster's grin my reality

In my dream it’s always there

Eyes of darkness cold and bare

It’s in the air it’s in the ground

Every heartbeat makes a sound

I tiptoe past its wrathful glare

But its claws they’re always there

Oh how it hungers oh how it feeds

On my pain my silent pleas

My fists they itch my spirit fights

But shadows drown the morning light

No freedom no time for me

The monster's grin my reality

In my dream it’s always there

Eyes of darkness cold and bare