Darkest Days

Darkest DaysPetri Damstén

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One dark poem, twenty-threedark photographs.

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Here we go again, a downward spiral

Who am I to fight the gravity

9

Cannot comprehend, you're in denial

I am at loss with my sanity

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Put my foot down, my final stand

Footing lost on a sloping plane

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Nothing to stop me from falling

Nothing left for me to gain

1 5

The world is only an illusion

It still is much too real for me

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Darkest days are no delusion

Just dark without a light to see

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Darkest days - Every one the same

Darkest days - The survival game

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Routines that give me pressure

Routines that cause me pain

23

Safety built in between them

The insurance to keep me sane

25

Contradiction, science fiction

Facts for my tortured mind

27

Whose life it is I am living

Am I not one of the kind

29

Picturing a different world

Drowning myself to the yellow sea

31

When thoughts can no longer bear

A monster that used to be me

33

The world is only an illusion

It still is much too real for me

35

Darkest days are no delusion

Just dark without a light to see

37

Darkest days - Every one the same

Darkest days - The survival game

39

Mountains of false hopes

Climbed them in the hope of

understanding

41

Oceans filled with liquid dreams

Sailed them in fear of a new awakening

43

And then came the morning

Falling down all over again

45

Sense of purpose yet to be found

Hammers at work in my brain

47

Counting seconds down to nothing

How much more I can endure

49

Nothing really matters anymore

Death is the only cure

51

Darkest days

Darkest days

Darkest days

Darkest days

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But there is always hope.

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One dark poem, twenty-threedark photographs.

http://torturedmind.org/