by Sarah O'Brien

Created on: January 30, 2010

Everything is black.

I'm surrounded by darkness, loneliness, sadness.

I search around me for a light

A glimpse of something

Anything besides black.

I fail.

I find only more blackness and emptiness.

I am alone.

Beneath me

It's cold, hard, bare

Except for a small puddle

Of what I soon discover are my own tears.

I keep on searching

For that small glimpse of light

But I am weak

So completely helpless.

I soon collapse onto the frosty, hard surface beneath me.

I wonder how I got to this place.

I lie there

Breathing in the coldness below me.

Breathing is getting harder now

And a new puddle is appearing under my face.

I try to think something good, possibly blissful.

But everything good seems to be disappearing into the blackness.

Blackness is swallowing everything up

But I refuse to be It's next victim.

It's getting at me now.

I'm to weak.

I'm trying my hardest to escape it.

I will not give up.

I can't.

I'm going to fight until the end

I have to.

Blackness is winning.

I just don't have enough strength.

My entire body is limp.

I'm completely numb.

The blackness is pulling me.

I take one last deep breath

Of the chilling air surrounding me.

It's over

Everything is black.

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