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.