The Rat Wheel of Eternity

🐀RAT WHEEL OF ETERNITY🐁 I woke up in a strange place, My head is pounding, I can't see, Cold steel grates surrounding me, This isn't where I fell asleep. I pace around this little cage, Trying to find a way to leave, Giants gather over me, Each terror holding sharp things. Cold hands grab me from my home, Pins and needles pierce my skin, Bright lights burning overhead, That fuckin' stings, do it again. I'm a dirty rat in a cage, I've been trapped here for days, Giants loom over my face, Stabbing with pins, SHIT! That fuckin' stings! I'm just a rat in their cage, Choking on water that they gave, Needle stabs into my brain, What are they injecting in? Weeks turn into eternity... Inside my wheel-shaped maze... I'm feeling smarter than I've ever been... What were they injecting into me? I woke up realizing today, That something doesn't feel the same, Those are instruments they use, not tools for pain, Maybe there's a crucial method in this place. And always, I see her face, The red-haired laboratory lady, She calls me Patient Twenty-Three-C, And writes observations almost daily. I know the voices in the room, I know the order they arrive, I know the smell before they enter, I memorized the schedule of my life. I'm a learning rat in a cage, I'm self-aware of everything, Doctors noting what they see, Injecting intravenously. I'm a learning rat in a cage, Every intervention changes me, I know I'm a rat... But I think like a human. (What's happening?!) Time has no meaning, Patiently waiting Through the seasons. That red-haired woman's name is Staci, She's here to enhance my brain and memory, Every test reveals another layer, Of whatever they're creating in me. I'm never getting out, I know much better now, I'm a complacent, quiet prisoner, Living in a rigged system of the obscure... The maze was never built for freedom, The wheel was never built for me, Every answer led to another question, Every gift became another disease. I'm hurting trapped in the wrong body, What have these scientists done to me? I think therefore I believe, Time no longer affects me. I'm hurting trapped in the wrong body, Stranded in the absurdity of infinity. Decades have passed but I'm unchanged, Watching everyone vanish in their own ways. Scientists fading through time's passage, New faces replacing old, Then no faces at all... Just these empty echoing walls... Trapped alone in this abandoned laboratory. (Praying for the end of this suffering...) I don't eat... Don't sleep... Don't drink... Tore free from sanity... Waiting through centuries... I keep living... Waiting through centuries... I keep living... Waiting through centuries... I... keep... living...