high

Tonight, I face you.
For decades, my back
Was turned instead
Towards blissful ignorance.

Surely, you must
Forgive me for keeping you
Waiting, but I wasn't sure for
How long I could hold.

To bear the burden of
Such a secret
Was excruciating,
Tore my ligaments from my bones.

Every second I carried it.
For 20 years,
I carried it.
I carried it.

Finally, the immense weight
And exterior effects of all the forces
Around me caused me to
Lose my balance

I grasped them, but
It was too late. They escaped me
The burden upon my back!
Weighing down for decades-

One by one, the demons escaped
Slowly, with this changed weight
These burdens failed to drown me
In their bone crushing weight.

My demons, one by one
Identified themselves to me.
Hidden in some gruesome corner of my mind
That even I had not traveled the corridors of.

My disfigured body gained posture
As the demons left me.
I was free and I was light and
I could finally look up to the fucking sky

Rather then the hell that writhed
Beyond my feet, into the dimensions
Of history and of yesterday.
I was free.

I released my demons, and
Their burden no longer weighed me down.
What I failed to realize was that I
Released them into the world surrounding me.