Deeper

It’s so dark I can hardly see

A gloom lies all around

A dark blanket of heaviness

Like the fog that envelopes

My mind in misty confusion

A dark and gloomy conclusion

I’m tired so very tired

Death and destruction

War and virulent pestilence

There is neither truth nor sense

In anything that I see

Yet is this an echo of me?

Deeper I seem to fall

And the deeper it gets

The more I feel constrained

As if trapped and contained

In some sort of heavy mud

Some stinking heap of crud

I am in a darkened tunnel

That never seems to end

The light I see is distant

Becoming even non-existent

As I seem to sink in deeper

Deeper, ever deeper