The Madman and His Best Friend

Have you ever taken a journey to the dark side of someone's soul?
It's quiet yet deafeningly loud, pitchblack while blinding, hot as hell and so cold.

Closed in walls, black as black, you can barely move so you creep;
But on closer examination the corners run not together merging instead into the deep.

Madman screaming out for mercy, "unleash these chains of my knotted, twisted mind!"
Then he cries out of truest agony, knowing the bondage is of his own making every time.

Head beating against the wall, eyes rolling backward within his head.
Has he escaped? No, that's not likely-entombed before he's dead!

"Momma help me, Momma help me! I'm so scared of this place!"
Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye his callused hands comforting his own face.

"Momma cannot help you," a stone cold voice stated from deeper yet within.
"This is between just you and I, and you know who'll always win."

"So fret no more my best friend, I've the cure for your quivering hand;
and you know the cure just as well as I-we've been here time and again."

Slowly crawling across the floor, trembling body leaning against the wall;
the madman cries, "Humans have backbones, they can stand, but not me, all I ever do is fall."

From the deep came comfort, "I know my love that's why I do not want you so far from the ground;
and that's why I said we need some more cure now so we don't come crashing down."

"You are right, you always know best," madman replies to his inner friend with a 'yes'.
"I can almost see the end table now just a few more seconds, I'm doing my best."

"Indeed you are my dear, you're doing so well," his friend supports "no one should say you are strung..."
Why you're functioning normal, where do they get off?! It's never your fault when things come undone!"

"And as for their comments who gave them the rights to your life?
They know not one thing about your stress and your personal strife."

"I bet no one could handle the things you deal with as you so craftily do.
Maybe they are jealous and like to pull you down-you decide which is true..."

Madman exhausted and sweating reaches the table and says, "Yes, you are right as a matter of fact..
No one loves me and I don't need them anymore so long as you've always got my back."

"Now, now surely you jest," assured his inner friend "you are the only one I live for;
You worry too much, you need to relax, hey this time you should try a little more."

"Last time it wasn't enough, euphoria didn't stay long, a larger dose will keep it around;
but stay by the table so you can have more fast to keep you from coming down."

"Yeah that's it, see you're starting to feel fine, but you know the high is not very strong;
I know, how 'bout this- take some more while you're up, then again to make it last long."

"I don't know," worried the madman,"I've never done that before, wouldn't it be too much?"
"Do you doubt me?" said the friend, "I'll always have your back; what happens to you happens to us."

"So true," said the madman, " we are always together; no one nor anything will come between you and I;
You love me, you comfort me, and without you I could not imagine getting by."

"You flatter me dear," replied the inner friend, "now come on what are you waiting for?"
Your hands are trembling, your body drips sweat, it's past time you did more."

"See, you need it to make it, you deserve to relax; let's quickly do one more again!"
The trembling over, eyes roll to the back, no communication between the friends.

Floating in no where because that's where he wants to be.
No worries, no one, no thoughts, no emotions, no need.

"Pssst, can you hear me?" asked his friend, "Can you hear me say take another?"
The message was clear, there was no need to hear-one's thoughts belonging to the other.

Together forever, best friends for life, a bond no outsider could break.
And with the last dose euphoria came-the kind that becomes one's fate.

Then they lay back against the wall, trembling over, the madman and his only best friend.
Yes his friend had his back, but it was against the wall, and he kept it there right to the end.