Escape

Tottering,

stumbling in the darkness.

Throbbing,

a cranium swells like a balloon;

Monstrous thoughts scratching

and scouring for an escape.

SMACK!

A tender cheek lands on a cool surface.

Groaning,

the heavy load is unzipped,

right between the two pastures of hair.

Oozing,

inky black drippings spill out,

staining a virgin blanket of papery snow.

Moving

to an unheard rhythm,

the inklings lace

together on a grid of blue.

Radiating,

raw emotions

all jumbled and obscure.

Pounding,

a heart accelerates in a bony cave.

Dredging,

finding and ensnaring wounds like criminals.

Surfacing,

tearing them  away from their shaded sanctuary;

sadness their only ally.

Brought forth and smeared

on the paper in a heap of red.

Awakening

from a dismal abyss,

an anguished soul once drenched in

loneliness and misery

has been purged;

exiled from its  fleshy cave.

Shining,

somewhat abashed,

for all the world to see.