I'Ve Fought It Before, I'Ll Fight It Again Poem by Noah Body

The blackness, ever the black
Always the dark, never the light
It saps my strength, kills my resolve
It's impossible to continue the fight

This way I look, that way I stare
But I cannot see anything at all
To help me grasp the walls of the pit
I just cannot arrest my steep fall

It sucks at me, sucks at me
It drains all my will
That it is back at all
It is a most bitter pill

I have no defenses
Nothing left at all
All light in the world
It causes to pall

This pit that I'm in
Is ever so deep
I think that this day
Away I must sleep

If only my mind
Would shut down for good
In the sleep of the grave
Forever rest I could

The bitterness of hatred
Is what I feel for myself
In sorrow and pain
Must I always delve

What a joke this is
So rotten and cruel
This isn't funny
Nor is it a duel

I've fought it before
And I'll fight it again
I just wish that it didn't
Bring such goddamn pain