I Can't Escape My Reality Poem by Mark Heathcote

I can't escape my reality
It's all around me
These four walls they're closing in
Submerging into a fantasy
'I can survive'
'I can't dream'
'I can live again.'

Lord, knows I can't escape reality
It's a pit I've dug,
And is still digging deeper
It's a subterrain chamber
Where I might, one day die.
I can't close my eyes anymore?
I've been hopelessly blind.
Take my hand, be my guide
Guide me to the promise land
Be the light at my side

Oh, now how can I go on?
Fumbling in the dark…
Upsetting everyone around me
As if my chest didn't contain a heart.
Oh, how can I go on?
Drowning each day,
Frothing at the mouth
Further and further away,
Lord, there's no ceiling or floor.
There's just more oceans carrying me away.

Lord, I can't escape
The next on coming tsunami wave
Lord, I'm in the palm of your hand
Lord, waiting, praying to be saved.
Lord, I can't escape my reality
Lord, you're all around me.
Hell and damnation
Heaven and paradise none pardoning
No ceiling or floor
Just four closing walls
No right way up or down…
It's awfully confusing this ride on your merry-go-round.
Submerging into a fantasy
'I can survive'
'I can't dream'
'I can live again'
'I can be your eternal friend.'