The beast within

I wrote this my senior year in highschool, so close to two years ago. It's about the demons I felt within myself at the time, and the conflict that I still deal with today.

I once again feel that beast, clawing, biting, burning
He wishes once more to be set loose upon the world
I fight against his ill intent, malice, and yearning
Unto my mind are his new vices and plans unfurled

I can feel my barriers begin to shake and falter
A power resounding throughout my entire being
His confidence, his arrogance, it is him I shall alter
A damnation? Or purely a definitive freeing?

His anger, his rage, all things hard to bear
I feel his hate, and his mind-blowing power
My burden my cross, my troubles with no one to share
I shall win this fight within, I will make him cower

For though he has the strength I lack
Love stands eternal on my side
I will cage this animal, take him back
A secret that I cannot confide

It is this that I must deal with everyday
Fighting against a being both me and not
But what horror shall be fact, if he escapes back into the fray?
I will roam this world until he’s caught