Depression

There is shadow.

 

It won’t leave me alone. 

 

It follows me home. It watches me through my window.

 

When he wraps around me, it chills me to my bones.

 

Is he just a part of me? No one can know. 

 

 

I try to pull away, I try to push him down. 

 

But he grabs me tighter, sinking into my skin.

 

As he goes deeper, I feel like I’m going to drown.

 

I fight but I know he will win.

 

So I walk around wearing him like a heavy gown.

 

 

He is my lover, my enemy, my friend, and seed of my destruction. 

 

He infects me and takes over my mind. 

 

I try, I really do, but I can’t stop this abduction.

 

We are now to intertwined. 

 

So we are stuck, me and him, in a forever dance of seduction. 

 

 

Can’t you see who he is? Can’t you tell by my obsession? 

 

I no longer fight. I welcome his embrace.

 

He is apart of me now there is no question.

 

So when you see my fake smiling face. 

 

Know that we are together, just me and my depression.