An aching in my bones

Tells me this is not working

He’s a voice in my head

Letting me know

I have to change,

The way I’m thinking.

Exhaustion creeps upon me

Like a hunting dog

In longing for a deer

Still my misery lies

Over me like a rock

Carried away by fear.

Hurricanes and tornadoes

Cut spirals through my mind

Tell them I can’t hold on any longer

I’m told take one step at a time.

But what can I do

When every step’s a mountain range,

I can’t finish climbing?

When every breath

Is just another thing

Which I take to be alarming?

When it all seems like a hill

I’m rolling down?

When everyone’s about me

But I have no one around?