Darkness wells up deep inside

Tears, the agony, I just can’t hide

Sadness, the tides of painful sorrow

No one is ever promised tomorrow

 

This I know, I’ve lived it well

Powerful events that cast their spell

Each a lesson that had its place

Hard realities I’ve had to face

 

Death and loss, those bitter foes

The memories that haunt, no one knows

Most will never have a clue

The burdens one carries, for they must push through

 

Never a soul to be daunted

I’d flirt with death, I’d drop the gauntlet

But time again, it hunts me down

Drags me bitterly to the ground

 

And even when I say enough

Sorrow unsatisfied, dines on lust

Barely recognizable, I am still me

Where is the angel who’ll set me free?

 

Until then the blackness rages

Death and sorrow rattle their cages

I fight the battle barely breathing

Daylight please, the pain revealing