Black
The world is black.
A black hole.
Sucking me down.
A cavernous wasteland.
Drawing me inside.

An inescapable hell.
Black is all I see.
These prison walls,
Enveloping me,
Trapping me inside.

Black are the faces
Of my demons.
Black is the ocean
I am drowning in.
Black is the world
That I live in.


-July 26, 2003