Depression is a strange emotion. It's something that twists through the darkest holes of our heats. It's something worms it's way into our warmest thoughts and burrows itself there leaving only a decaying memory of happiness. Depression is like an infection that grows, breaths, and destroys everything except one memory of a feeling of wondrous joy. A light that keeps you moving. Depression sits there leaving the light there, letting it flicker and die on its own so that we can feel true despair. The kind that lingers and lets strangling strands of hope flutter through the inky black killer that is desolation. The kind that keeps you cutting and hiding but not killing. The kind that lets you brush your fingers along happiness so that you never that you never forget that there is something else out there. Something better, something beautiful, something brilliant. It lets you gain hope that you'll discover true happiness once again. Only then its cold claws will curl cruelly around you. Once again pulling you under into the torturous inky black chambers bellow. Everyday this torturous emotion, infliction, monster whatever you wish to call it attacks the darkest parts of my soul, mind, and heart. It expands the dark anguish that has lurked silently in the darkest parts of me ready to pounce when it feels the time is right. I take steady breaths each night trying to fall asleep as the dark desolate despondency pulses silently beneath my skin growing faster then any disease. Letting evil thoughts find their way in telling me that depriving myself of the sweet sensations of pain will only add to my misery. Though to many the right answer obvious in my darkest moments I believe the cold cutting voices. I'll stop depriving myself of their deadly sweet songs. I'll stop depriving myself of the pain. It is then that I allow the knives to pierce my skin and it is then when I wish the nails would draw the dark blooming blood. It is then that I give in and let them win the war.