Come Out Of The Dark

 This world of the broken who are living in their own prison surrounded by a darkness that consumes all their light.  They hang on to life swinging from the vines of those who are only supporting them out of pity.  Someone who has no interest in seeking help or trying to at least use a dim flashlight to find their way out of their own hopelessness.  

I lived here once.  There was a time in my own life where nothing seemed possible and everything seemed pointless.  Surrounded by quick sand that held me down.  It's draining... emotionally, mentally and physically.  The only one who can pull you out of your own personal hell... is you.  The people around you get contact drain.  They try so hard to help you out of that pit, but in reality, it's your own pit and you have to climb out alone.  Only when you do it alone can you appreciate the rope that others are throwing down to you.  

People seek chemicals (drugs and alcohol) to help calm their storm, but that is only a temporary fix.  So they do more and more and before you know it, you are traveling down a one way 2-lane highway, where no matter which lane you are in, you are headed for a head-on collision with reality.  The reality, that you are traveling down this one way road alone.  You can go as slow or as fast as you want, either way, you are going to crash and nobody will be able to extract you from the wreckage but you.

You yearn for someone, anyone to help you, to love you, to give you a flashlight so you can see beyond the darkness, but all there is, is you.  Nobody wants to get lost in your darkness.  You need to fight your own demons and supply your own flashlight.  Until you do, you will never find your way out to anything that might seem worth fighting for.  But I assure you, once you find your way out, there is a life to live.  Until you learn to love yourself and find your own peace in the hell you live in, you will never find what it is you yearn for.