Outside

It is my own home’s affliction
Behind bars within a cage
I’ve been marked the plague’s possession
And I’ve been locked in for days
There’s a ruckus in the streets
Those I begged to stay inside
Soon the noise gives way to silence
For a moonlit lullaby
Oh my mind
Oh my mind
Thoughts are fleeting all the time
I feel bones begin to splinter
As my fever starts to climb
Who’s to blame
Who’s to blame
For the blood that wrought this shame
Now my ears have started ringing
To a symphony of pain
My blood’s contagion
Brings transformation
But all I want before the doom
Is to see the streets outside this room
Don’t leave me waiting
My lantern’s fading
And I won’t be awake to see
The monster that becomes of me
Let me see the sky one last time
Come home and take me outside