The darkness hovers like a stormy cloud,

creating a shadow within my soul.

The shadow speaks to me like the wind,

whispering of things I don’t yet know.

It’s a ghostly presence that haunts my mind.

An eerie sense like a haunted house.

It lies like demons who wipe out hope.

In my heart, it creates doubts.

Doubts of the present moments in time.

Doubts of the future that will one day be.

Desperately longing to be rid of this shadow,

I must challenge the lies that bind me.

Shadows of fear like chains around my neck

It becomes chains that hold me beneath the oceans.

Struggling to come up and breathe freely,

The shadow binds me from my own emotions.

The shadow becomes a part of me,

draining the life out of my soul.

It’s plagued me for years.

The only thing I know.

But freedom will reign one day.

When I cast away this shadow of doom.

I make every effort to shed this darkness,

In my soul, I give it no more room.