The darkness eats away at me Minute by minute Day by day In a constant search for the bright white light of life, I get pulled back inward. It's not that I don't see the sun shining through my windowpane Or that I don't feel the way the breeze whispers through the trees on a magical October day. It's that I feel it all... the beauty, the magic, the life, the death, the sadness, the pain All of it. Rushing through my veins with an intensity that plagues me. Someone else walking by me on the street, I get punched in the gut by their struggles. I see a new mother cradling her baby, and I cry her tears, not mine. I am cursed. My curse is my own and for only me to harness. And I must or else I will be trapped by it. There is light within me, I know. Enough that it shall never get snuffed out. And for that I am grateful but growing tiresome of constant struggle within myself. I live everyday half in the light and half in the dark With each passing day, one w...