The Layers of darkness creep over my eyes,
Shroud my heart, and smother my soul.
Sinister Confusion laughs at my feeble attempts
To make sense of it all, jumbling thoughts around,
Tossing them carelessly into the air, letting them fall.
Fall without sound or meaning
Onto the decaying ground of despair.

The darkness comes slowly,
Secretly,
Then swiftly,
Bursting through any shell of safety
That was protecting my desperate grip,
Stretching and tearing the last shred of conscious hope for
A glimpse of the Illusions.

As I give in to the abysmal gloom,
A long lost thought rises unconsciously,
A remembered plea escapes my lips.

Then-
There, at an unknown depth in the blackness,
Is that the flicker of light coming closer?
Would someone be so kind, so foolish,
To walk the distance into my darkness,
To deliver even a small package of life sustaining hope?

Who would dare to enter my crumbling world,
But He whose Name I silently screamed,
Who is ALWAYS there with His light,
If I remember to call.