Darkness seeps into
  My brain
  As an acid --
  
  Eating away what
  Little hope
  There is left.
  
  A curtain descends
  Over my world --
  And it colors 
  Everything I see.
  
  A faulty contact
  Lense -- projecting
  Distortion 
  In my mind's 
  Eye.
  
  I see not my
  True world,
  But my photo-
  Negative
  
  No light can
  Be found --
  Rose-colored
  Glasses turning
  Opaque as they
  Obscure reality.
  
  It is all an
  Illusion --
  Perception is
  Skewed...
  
  Twisted into
  A false portrayal
  Of life
  
  I have been 
  Looking at
  My surroundings
  Through the
  Wrong filter
  
  Perception 
  Changes everything
  
  Optimism will
  Make life's
  Problems seem
  Less cumbersome
  
  Some of the
  Burden will
  Disappear if
  I see my
  Present for
  What it is
  
  Only temporary --
  A blink in
  My lifetime's
  Eye
  
  I will not
  Surrender to
  Life's terrors
  
  I will not
  Be a hostage
  Of my fears.
  
  It is time
  To remove 
  The dark
  Glasses
  
  And see 
  Everything in
  A new light
  
  Absorbing 
  Every new
  Experience
  As a sponge
  
  Squeezing
  Myself dry
  When I've
  Had enough
  
  And diving
  Back into
  The pool of
  Experience.
  
  Life goes
  On --
  
  Present trials
  Becoming past
  Problems
  
  And future
  Dreams becoming
  Present successes.
  
  See it all
  Through not
  Dark nor
  Rose-colored
  Lenses
  
  But unaided --
  As it truly
  Is.
  
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