Once Again - Poem

ONCE AGAIN

The darkness knows its place

It creeps in when I am not looking

and finds its place within the far corners

and recesses of my mind.

It settles in and lives there festering,

waiting for the light to start to fade

so it can come out to play

making my life miserable

once again.

It tortures me constantly

even from its safe places

in my mind.

It always seems to find its way

back out to surface after things

had been going well.

Thus the down hill spiral

into the deep dark abyss

once again.

The darkness knows its place

because it created its own space

within my thoughts and feelings.

It turns them into bad things

things I wish I would not

think and feel.

I think dark things

I feel dark things

once again.

I fight and struggle

with the darkness

I try to bring in the light

to make it a better place

to live inside my head.

I pour positive affirmations

into my brain

to find my light

once again.