In darkness where I belong

No matter how the daylight gleams,

Or how I fight to guide my dreams,

The shadows curl around my sight

They follow close, they steal my light.



My demons clutch my weary chest,

They twist and pull, deny me rest.

Air fills the world, yet I can’t breathe,

A silent cage I can’t escape,

A moment I can’t ever leave.



I try to rise, I climb, I strain,

But life breaks open under pain.

The ground gives way beneath my feet,

And down I fall in cold retreat

Returned to where I’m doomed to be,

A place that feels like home to misery.