Possessed

Help me, I'm falling

Trapped in a life I don't want

Afraid to reach for something more

For fear I may loose what little hope I still have

I know there must be something more

But I don't know where to find it

I don't know what is happening to me. I am so scared. I woke up today not knowing where I was. I looked at my watch; it was hours past when it should be. I don't know where the time went or how I got here. I should tell somebody, but I can't. What if they don't believe me? What if it only gets worse?

Help me, I'm sinking

The depths of water creeping up in me

Inky and black to hide me away

And drown my breath in the brutal grasp of cold

Something is happening to me

And I am helpless to fight it

It happened again today. But this time there was blood, so much blood. I was covered in it. And then they found the writing on the wall -in blood. It was me, it must have been. I don't know how. I feel cold. There is something inside me that doesn't belong here. Oh Merlin, oh GOD! What is happening? What does it mean?

Help me, I'm losing

My sanity is slipping away

And the warmth of love is deserting me

I feel all that is myself growing lost inside my mind

A bit of me is lost each minute

Too much longer, and I'll be gone

What if somebody dies? What if it's my fault? Something is attacking the students. Sooner or later somebody will die; it's only a matter of time. I should tell. But what if they blame me? What if it IS me? I can't even tell... it could be. I still wake up, not knowing where I am or how I got there.

And the timing.... it can't be coincidence. Every time there is an attack, another innocent it petrified, I find myself somewhere I shouldn't be, somewhere I have no memory of going to. I desperately pray it is coincidence, but my mind screams that it cannot be.

Help me, I'm sleeping

Dreams of serpents and blood, please

Grab my shoulders and shake me awake

Draw me from this nightmare that overtakes my mind

I feel so weak and so heavy

My life is slipping tenuously through my fingers

I don't know where I am anymore. I'm not in the castle anymore; I think I am in the Chamber. I can't feel anything except cold. I'm frozen in place, frozen to the core. Oh Merlin, oh GOD! Why didn't I tell anyone when I had the chance? I'm dying, and they'll never know the truth, they'll never find me.

Am I to be consigned to this icy hell forever? What have I done? I've signed the fate of the world with my silence. How many more will suffer, be petrified, will die because of me? Please, somebody, help!

Somebody help me

Extend an arm, a hand

To catch me as I fall

To pull me out of the cold

To rouse me from my trance

To let me once more feel that which I have forgotten, forsaken