And Pain Smiles, And Pain Laughs

You don’t see it

Creeping up

Out of the darkness.

The shadows, it uses

To prepare

For it’s chance

To attack.

It gives you a break.

A false sense of

Hope.

 

Then it returns

More eager than ever

To take everything back.

The control,

The power,

It wants your light.

 

And it smiles,

Seeing your despair,

As what you built back up

Is torn down again.

And it laughs,

Seeing your struggle,

As you try

Not to cry.

 

No one can help

Because no one

Can see something

Invisible.

This poem is about: 
Me

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