this dark room, a bottomless pit, a place in my mind but in motion of free falling witness to my pain and anxiety I bore, a feast for the beast that rules in its whole
βyou should try hardβ, they proposed, without being aware of the beast the cage holds nights are haunted by the ghosts of loss one way of getting out- but life is that cost.
This poem is part of my poetry series called- 'Shadows Within', which features poems related to depression, anxiety and loneliness.