Encased

It's been nearly an eternity since I felt okay

Forgotten in the name of my own protection

"You can't break what's not there" I used to say

And the feeling worsened like an infection

It's cold being lonely and it's lonely being cold

To sit in the lofty towers of apparent apathy

But nature abhors a vacuum, so I've been told

But somehow I thought the exception was me

In the emptiness of emotion that I had created

The all consuming dark of the surrounding void

Consumed all that was left of the heart ablated

But darkness doesn't stop when you're destroyed

It spread around me, burying me alive

Pressed underneath the power of my own choice

I lay suffocating, praying for help to arrive

The layers above me muffling my voice

And now I lay entombed under my morass

A testament so that all may look and see

Preserved inside the clear lifeless glass

The inner mummy that I have come to be