Oppression

Drop into the dark dreadful despair
To find your fear nested in your hair
Throbbing, beating, tearing at the heart
What can I do, but fall apart?
but come apart?

Empty, vacant, strangling thing
Into this world unleash a sting
Take your screams, make them sing
My head pours out a constant ring
drones a constant ring

Split apart, open at the seams
My dreams, my love, don't find their means
Ever lost in a sea of dreams
A nightmare seen with waking scenes
with violent scenes

Come out! Turn it off! I hear it say
O, if only I may but nay
The strength I find not by the way
The day is gone, darkness pervades
Cringing on my strands of flesh
What could I do but rest
'Till my sunshine scaled the crest
Purging the cestpool of torment
Surging anew in through my vibrant mind
Whose channel still grew blind;
Broken were the chains,
Shattered were my fears,
The power of Christ's spoken name.