Possession

Is it me?

Or am I possessed

Sometimes I don't recognize the person my mirror reflects

Emptiness fills my chest
As my heart beats steadily beneath my breast

So I take another step
Continuation, the only measure left

Counting every breath
That brings me closer
To the inevitable
Nearer to death

Pushing through this sea of regrets
Hoping to forget

The memories that haunt my soul
The beast that has me captured
Utterly enraptured

Clinging to its world
Caught up in the swirl
Of desperate emotions
That toss and churn
Agony fills my heart
With an infinite burn

For its treachery I yearn
I keep falling
But I do not learn
This pain is not unearned

From this strangers deadly game
I wish to be released
Still I know its mind
I expect defeat

Yet I stand
Unshakable
In the presence, of the monster;
That I am.