Consumed By The Darkness Poem by Tex T Sarnie

I lost the fight one dark cold night,
against my mind and insanity.
My friends, I had none and I stood alone,
But I was befriended by depravity.

Depravity, brought along his close friends,
depression, despair, and despondency.
Any thoughts of hope that I may have had,
the darkness consumed them instantly.

There was no light at the end of a tunnel,
only a downward spiral of gloom.
My mind was swamped with abstract thoughts,
which led me to the door of doom.

I was unsteady on my feet and did not want to enter,
so tried to shut down my thoughts and close my eyes.
Reality was nowhere to be seen, it had been consumed,
all I could see was chaos, confusion, and lies.

From the periphery came tormenting creatures,
the like I had never seen before.
I tried desperately to fight them off, but it was useless,
with their nails they attacked my skin and tore.

There was no escaping this spiral of nightmares.
I was dragged to deeper, darker, depths.
Where was I? Who was I? Why was this happening?
What possibly could happen next?

I'm being transferred from one thought to another.
Then cut adrift into imaginations of an abstract kind.
I'm now being consumed by the expanding darkness.
Is it possible these are figments of an unbalanced mind?