RedRavenPoems

Caught in a maelstrom of discontent

Spinning, swirling, flying this way and that.

I have to ask, is it over yet?

Falling into a pit. One made of darkest despair

Looking ever upward at the dwindling light.

I scream out as I plummet, how is this fair.

I’ve lost my way.

Lost the path I tread.

Wish ever for the embrace of the darkest lands,

Seek ever my voyage to the summer lands.

Yet from inside a light still shines

A gleaming beacon within my mind.

Reminding me of the tasks I have.

The adventures I’ve planned, the goals I have set.

It Whispers firmly, we are not done yet.

I halt my fall. Clinging by broken nails to the cliffs walls.

I ascend, I give it my all.

For I will not fail, will not descend down.

For in the pit lies madness and damnation.

And I refuse it with upmost determination.

The voice in my mind, the little light that shines.

Is my salvation, unto it I cling in desperation.

It pulls me from the abyss.

Before I fall into its cold embrace, before I feel the final kiss.

My mind flows, like the tides

No longer from the truth I hide.

I seen the pain. I see the flaws.

I see untold grief that made me fall.

I embrace it all, I let the words flow

Let the feelings show.

I survived. I now grow.

As does the light that within glow.