Darkness lurks at the edges
Drawing me deeper
Ensnaring me in its grip
Like some garden vine creeper

Numbness seeps in
Heavy and cold
Leaving me lost and alone
My sanity starting to fold

Dark glazed eyes
Watch others who live
Feeling the world slip by
Its hold on me starting to give

Silent tears cannot shed the pain
Neither can they control the fear
Leaving me helpless to the Boogeyman
That lives in my mind and rules my depair  

The light at the end of the tunnel
Flickers and fades
My soul dying a little further
As it weakens beneath depair's unceasing raids

Stepping into the darkness
I turn slowly away
From the world and the living
Having lost even the strength to pray

No comfort can be found
So crushed is my will
No shred of hope
The Boogeyman too strong to kill

Sinking into the bed chamber of my demon
Now nothing more than its slave
Chained to its side
Until I can escape to my eternal grave

Gone is the hope, the warmth, the joy
Leaving only a tortured shell
That now contemplates how best to end
My own version of hell