Everything is dark now,
And I cannot see.
The space that I'm stuck in shrinks,
And I cannot breathe.
There is a deafening noise in this silence,
I can't think straight.
The weight on my back is too much to bear,
So now I fall to my knees.
Thoughts in my head whirl faster than light,
I think I might be losing it.
These fears in my head are not real,
Yet they make my shake.
The voice in my mind becomes a demon,
Feeding the fear and lies.
He will be the one to break me utterly,
And he will beat the pieces until they become dust.
It's hopeless, I'm useless;
This is too hard.
The walls around me grow higher,
Above, the pinhole of light is there to tease.
I try to climb and fall back down,
Where do I start? How do I get out?
I scream until my lungs burn;
No one is there to hear me.
If there were they would laugh at me in my hole,
They won't understand how I got here.
But this darkness is all in my mind,
And I know only I can banish it.
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Behind the Silence
PoesiePoetry portraying the things I never say, the pain of depression and other unspoken shadows in my mind. Writing is my way of exploring and coping with a lot of internal issues and I like the way poetry is able to paint pictures of emotion.
