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.