A Secret

You have a secret
Hibernating in your mind
Crawling through your bones
Inside it sends you wild
Bending, twisting, contorting
Soon you will break
Soon you will shatter

You can't stop it
It's been too long
You've left it there to grow
The whispers twirl in between your thoughts
Louder and louder
Turning and swirling beneath the surface

Like cigarette smoke
It suffocates your guts
Gliding up to your heart
The beats are now erratic
You start to sway
Sweating, shaking
Now your knees are buckling
In the mud your skin is cracking

You have a secret
It dances in your day dreams
It keeps you from sleeping
Your heavy eyes are blind

Eaten from the inside out
You now belong to it
A possession bound alive
In it's world of tarnished chaos
And endless filth

Lying in the shallows
Weeds bleed out of your fingers
To knot through your hair
Intertwining with the roots below
So very still
So very small
A voiceless carcass

Sinking slowly
To break
To shatter
To crumble into dust

Now deep in the dark
Down in the depths
This secret has you