Life Crashing

Written during a bout of insomnia.

Into the darkness I fall, fall, fall
Deeper, deeper, deeper with no hope at all
Rescue? A cruel joke; certainly there’s no hope
So alone I suffer on, searching some way to cope

There’s no light at the end of this tunnel dark and deep
This is why I lay awake at night, wishing for sleep
Wracked with silent sobs and tears that will not fall
Ever running through the dark; running from it all

Though the end has not arrived here, not now, not yet
I feel as close to it as possible; closer than I’d like to get
Writing out my feelings has sometimes helped before
Better than taking a knife to my flesh, evening the score

Though death be a certainty, for now it as at bay
Exhausted from my efforts, but I make it stay away
For now I’m left struggling to battle through it all
As into the stifling darkness I fall, fall, fall