Darkness & Me

Another day of black and grey
In the realm of incessant pain

Why must I always be this way?

Like a diseased mouse
inside an endless, cruel maze

I call out but no one hears
They’re all too in love with themselves
or drowning in their own sea of tears

My sense of everything...anything
is slowly drifting away

I watch the candle light flicker

then extinguish

in the indignant breeze

Now there’s only the darkness
The darkness and me