Walking in the dark

No escape

Slipping down into the endless night,

utterly void and deprived of light.

I can't swim up, sideways or otherwise,

unable to move until I realize.

Where am I going? What's there to feel?

Am I even alive? Is anything real?

I need something to do, show my zeal,

but no matter how hard I try my heart can never be steeled.

Cowering back into the dark from which I came,

I can only have hope no one else feels the same.

I know I am not alone in this, but I wish I felt zen,

I'm stuck with these feelings, all this burden.

Why won't it stop!? Why can't it end!

I've gotten myself, my mind in a bend.

I've got to get out, I need to get away,

but there is no escape, at the end of the day.