Circle of Life

It was dark in the room

There was no light

Just silence and darkness

You couldn’t leave,

All you had were your thoughts

Dragging you down with no hope of escape

The bad thoughts filled your head

Till there was nothing left

“This is it, there’s no escape, I’m stuck here forever.”

Seconds passed, hours, days, weeks, months

How long have you been here?

The seconds pass by slow, you lose your sense of time

What seemed like ages later there was a light.

You look up and in the distance

A low glow, light off in the distance

You get up, hope filling your spirit

And you run towards the light

You feel free, lighthearted after all the darkness surrounding you for forever disappears

You run and run and you finally get to the light

And it disappears

Gone. As if it never existed, a figment of your imagination

You fall back, the light, the hope, is gone

All you feel is dread

You thought it would end but it didn’t

You sit back down as the darkness surrounds you once more

Realization hits you, and you think

“There’s no point now, it’s not coming back.”

The inspiration is partly based on a video game, where someone would die, and everyone would feel despair, they would feel sad, but then as time goes on, it would get happy, joyful as if it never happened. Then someone else would die and it would be sad again, so like this poem kind of shows it, you can be happy for a short moment of time, and feel hope, but it’ll disappear and you’re right back where you started. It just shows that you spend more time surrounded by the dark and not light.