Genre: Poetry/Angst

Characters: Renee W.

Struggle

As darkness surrounds me heavily,

I start to panic.

The blackness of my heart is suffocating me,

And there's no foreseeable way out.

I walk around in this maze,

Grasping at something I cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch.

I try to pull back my past,

All the joyful memories stored in the back of my mind.

They don't come.

I pinch myself,

An attempt to wake up from this nightmare

In which I am hopelessly lost.

An attempt to make myself feel something.

Anything.

I don't feel it, though.

All I feel is the sensation of numbness taking over my body.

I want a way out.

I want to find my way back to the light,

To the happiness I once knew.

But there's no easily found exit

Out of my mind, the house of sorrows.

Is anybody there?

Does anybody care that I'm slipping down a steep hole

With no way to climb back out?

"Help me!" I shout.

No response.

"Save me!" I plead.

The silence is deafening.

"Anybody?"

No one answers, as predicted.

My struggle is pointless.

I close my eyes and lie down,

Surrendering to the inescapable labyrinth known as my heart.