Growing – Monochromes in a Colourful Mind

In my dreams, I am trapped

In a nightmare of decay

Fungi slowly grow within me

A creeping, crawling paralysis 

It starts in my brain, a fuzzy haze

As the spores take hold and multiply

I feel them spreading, seeping down

Into my joints, where they ache

I can feel them multiplying

Their growth is slow but steady

I am helpless to their progress

As they consume me, I am unhinged

Powerless to succumb to their growth

As they consume my very being

I am incapable of stopping them

And their slow, relentless breeding

The fungus spreads through my belly

And I feel my body failing

I am becoming a host to decay

And my mind is weakly trailing

In my dreams, I am consumed

By the creeping, crawling decay

The fungus has taken hold

And I am too slowly fading away