Alone in your darkness

Alone in your darkness

Alone in your darkness with so many

people around your demons will find

you when you do not want to be found

it is the comfort they offer while your

chaos exist a persuasive proposal one

not so hard to resist creating a crisis of

conscience as it fights for your soul

it wreaks havoc in your life while it

battles you for control confusion of your

emotions never peace in your head

causing reactions to thoughts that you

are better off dead the choices you

choose are out of desperation and despair

now drowning in guilt you find yourself

gasping for air bringing nothing but

destruction of both families and while

you are alone this is mankind’s greatest

threat that it has ever known it spreads

like no other through cities and small towns

its name is called addiction and it infects

with no cure found the young and rich old

or poor it does not care who opens

the door it only brings sorrow and

heartbreak and death evermore.

you can try and run or even try to hide

it will find you anywhere and to those who

say they got it nope it has control of

you I swear

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A #Poets Journey