There Is A Darkness

There is a darkness always lurking around. Concealed, but ready to pounce, swoop you downwards rapidly and keep you there. Hold you captive in a hole, in darkness. There is a darkness called depression, a mental illness that affects your wellness for it invades your mind and body, distorts your thoughts, numbs senses and feelings. Darkness, you are not welcome anymore for you cannot seduce me anymore. Yes, you did so many times in the past when I was lost, broken, easily swayed. Those times you targeted and took me with you, down, down, down in the dark. You held me hostage, your force kept me down, no matter how hard I tried to get up. I was able to escape a few times, but you kept recapturing me with your black web, finding myself subdued in dark spell and looking for a light in the dark to get out. The last time you captured me was the murkiness, the longest stay I had and the hardest struggle I had to get out for I kept falling back again and again in the murk. That was a long, long time ago and now you are restrained to stay away from me. You have too many faces, one being the depression I totally confronted, goodbye!