Diseases and plagues are easy to withstand
Hurricanes and earthquakes that reduce your world to sand
Are inconsequential compared to the torture,
The interminable agony you endure
Resistance or reversal ever futile
Against an all-consuming affliction of the devil
Warping every happiness to a misery
Past becoming future: time unravels slowly
But insanity is a loathed escape
From the hell you yourself create
Your thoughts breed a deserved hatred
A roiling pain that incubates inside
Of every word, every action you’ve ever committed
Knowing yourself a failure at everything you ever tried
It’s a pain, a hate you cannot escape
No matter how fast, how far you run […]