The Darkness Part 2

Photos taken by Cassie

The will that drove me to do things

At first burned with a consuming flame

But fear and rejection

Smothered the conflagration.

Mighty as it might have been

I did not sustain it.

Desire which never lasted

made the heart weary of the future.

In darkness the heart dwells.

I walked blindly, guided by desire

Only to be led to a dead end

Where the last hope withered and died.

Even the light that was once bright

Was eaten away by darkness

Darkness that grows and grows

Which confusion has cloaked my heart.

In fear, weakness overcomes the light

But through darkness I know I exist

There is no hope that I might come out

Of that hole where light cannot escape.

A hole that drags an already confused self

Squeezing out every drop of its humanity

And sucks everything that is worthy of life

To transform it into eternal emptiness.

Voices call out for mercy

And pained hearts paint everything black

In this tunnel where I walk

I search for something to hold on,

In infinite emptiness walled by sorrow,

But I found myself stumbling in the dark.