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Title: Life in the darkness
Author: Darryl Flanagan
Theme: being me
Story: IF LIFe is a test I got nothing to lose
That means nothing is left, some die confused
I refuse
to let my anger difuse
Its built UP inside, I MUSt be used
Pre concieved perception
aLL my bent UP tension
RICochets and FLYs in every direction, Feel the pressure
Feel the opression
survive through out the depression
no more half life living it’s a FULL life now
got MY feet on the ground, no more living, I stay grounded
While Paranoir surrounds
Losing my grip
realitys a hazy trip
I get PISSed everytime, I Feel IM LOSING it
IMPULSes drive me cos IM use to using it
now tell me who the FUCK runs your manor
POLICE enforcing peace, now that’s a piece of shit
the deceit in the streets lays 6 feet deep
so chop the hands OFF the thief
KICK out his front teeth
IM caught UP in a chemical reaction
A sinister distraction
when drugs polute theres no relaxing
and aint nothing left, LOVing the greed for the money
and the LUST from sex
sometimes I feel hostile and barely LIVing
and when IM spitting, nobodys listening
should I take it apart
and IF I do were do I start
been caught in the dark for to many years
seen the tears from my peers
turn to ammo for destruction, but slowly they fall
so dont tell me not to Freak, whether your life aint got no meaning
your Feinding For a dream
careless of animosity
IF all else Fails, we prevail
through the depths of hell
and come equip with Lyrics
that are heartless

CHORUS x2

trapped in the darkness
no way to escape
now you await the fate
death wont compensait
Stairing at the world through a tainted glass
seeking the memories
OF your Forgotten past

I Learnt the art from a young age
consummed with rage
every night I prayed but nothing came
already arranged MY destiny
was a life without misery
constantly Felt like death was all around me
LOSing my sanity as well as my family
All MY thoughts consist OF IS SUICIDE
And I cant seem to find
Or define MY mind in these hard times
IM LOSing It, SICK of Feeling negative instead of Positive
this LIFe I choose to LIVe, taking tips of crack Fiends and pasafists
when my own analysis IS I cant handle this
SO IM cutting loose ties
COS Loose ties, tie around your neck
watch the sweat From the pressure
creeping in the back row
they never saw MY shadow
prepared For battle, they stare cos there scare
cant hack nor handle facts
there strapped watch your back
cos these GUYS be two Faced, they attack in packs
Learnt MY lesson, FLIPPed it, made it my MISSION
The competition be pissing blood when I hit em UP
whispers in the darkness, realised its true
my silence is guided, reminded by YOU
IM still hitting
Flame on still ripping, and spitting these ILL Rhythms
eniaLating the COMPetition
trapped in a world thats paralel to hell
only way to escape, IS to just save yourself
cant runaway, trapped in this world of insanity
abnormalitys and technicalitys
countless casualities to STD or H.I.V
seduced by pussy, a pussy indeed
screams From another fiend
trapped in the darkness
cant escape
stone cold to heartless

Chorus x 2

trapped in the darkness
no way to escape
now you await the fate
death wont compensate
stairing at the world through a tainted glass
seeking the memories of your Forgotten past