Bells

I woke up to alarm bells

Lost in my own bed

Lost in my own head

Control, slipped through my fingers

It was all artificial

A sea of masked memories

I woke up to alarm bells

Lost in my own bed

Lost in my own head

I ran, I ran, I ran

I swear I did!

But my feet held fast

Stuck by the concrete walls

No strength could avail

I woke up to alarm bells

Lost in my own bed

Lost in my own head

Stop the ringing

The constant ringing

That shrieks in my mind

Stop!

Let darkness prevail

I woke up to nothing

The warmth touched my skin

There the bedside table

A bell laid broken

Cracked in two

For a moment

Comfort sought me out

For a moment

No bells were ringing

But only for a moment

It came back

As if a headache

Those miserable bells!

And from where?

For whom did they ring?

A hand pulled me up

From the peace

Where I lay

I sobbed to the sound

That I could not drown

She pulled me up

Hand in hand

Quickly I was taken

Quickly we ran to shelter

Quickly she drowned the ringing

With hot summer air

In the distance it was there

But she held me with care

She surmounted the distance

To create a place of existence

A moment of rest

Eluded to these signs

Consciousness gave way

To the fright they conveyed

These bells were ringing my name

In a sea of Alarm