My demons come out to play
When you ask me how I feel
When you beg me to tell you my thoughts
They come with unmitigated zeal

These thoughts and feelings
That have laid dormant for so long
Come to the forefront
And the feeling is so strong

I’m scared to tell their secrets
Afraid of what, I’m not sure
Maybe I’m afraid that if I tell them
Then of them, I’ll be cured

These secrets have become my life
A part of my reality
It seems like they’ve always been with me
Like a congenital abnormality

But now it’s all out there
All the cards are on the table
And I feel a strange emptiness
Like someone has cut the cable

A tie severed from my former life
Freeing me into the new
The demons that once haunted me
Are now defeated and through