Out of Darkness…

I sank into the darkness
And all that I could see
Were harrowing reflections
Like mirrors back at me.

No one heard me screaming
No one there to help,
I grabbed my scalp with both hands
Pulled up before I yelped.

Gasped for oxygen, but anger
It consumed the air around,
My screams were all but deafened
When hearers were not found.

The anger gave to weeping
Such sadness hard to bare,
I tried escaping, running
I stopped, but it’s still there.

So I gave into the feelings
Look, and just like that it passed,
Purified by listening
To what my body grasped.

It was for me to save me
It was for me to fight.
It was for me to work hard
To make it through the night.

Out of the night, there saw I
Some light, some hope, some life
So walked towards it wide-eyed
I’d found my place with strife.