Tainted With Myself
By:  Doug Doughtie
© 1993 by Doug Doughtie

Yes, I feel tainted with myself.

I will depart, not of this world
but, from the agony of myself
Pull away, confess delusions
Surrender to Hell

Destruction invites rebirth
This, my only reprieve
Innocence gone then
Numbness concieved

Pain in my truth
Fear of my life
Freedom by virtue
No solitude, nor suicide

Helplessness...Lifes
Feeble excuses
Transform the lies
Inflict past abuses

Alternative thinking
Physical releases
My bondage
Consumes me

Tainted
Contaminated
A child within
somehow corrupted

Predoomed
Postdoomed
Face the inevitable
Change is futile

The force within
Waiting to escape
The Beast lives forever
Make no mistake

Bye for now my friends
I must retreat.....

The Beast Within