Into the Night - a poem

Compulsion
Obsession
And freedom –
Entrapped in myself
And lost in others –
Forever away from the world –
Forever locked in the dark ––
Take me away into the night
And forget the world behind us –
For I am not the one you know
Nor the one I remember –
The one who couldn’t keep control
Or stay calm through it all –
Pain
Panic
Torture ––
I am not the same
And never will be –
Not now that you have come –
Not now that I am free ––

A shallow grave awaits us at the end of our journey –
We had a good run – while it lasted