there are many metaphors and lines of figurative language to describe hopelessness defeat someone else won i'm a fan of these metaphors and lines of figurative language when i'm being weighed down being ground into the earth by this emotional ******* i need to hold onto something so i hold onto the lines that someone else spoke the lines that someone else cried out in a moment of agony i hold onto those lines that let me know i'm not alone i'm over the i'm in darkness line i've come up with my own response, so cleverly structured in thought and maybe one day someone might hang onto my lines like i've grasped others i'm over the darkness and it's because i've been stuck here for so long that i've learned how to see because while darkness seems like the inevitable black hole that the universe will one day be ****** up into the darkness is really just shades of demonic monsters and all you gotta do to survive is figure out which shades are the lightest