The darkness is swallowing me up again. I exist in a confined space, one part sadness, the other anger; sometimes the two become indistinguishable. I am a flame of rage in a freezing wind, burning and extinguished. I am a hollowed out heart, a fade to grey, a bird who forgot she ever wanted to fly. Even in the greenest of pastures, the bleak shades of my nature take over and I wonder why sorrow is the language I know best, why the fire dies inside me every time I begin to feel even the slightest glimmer of warmth. I am selfish, ungrateful, vision narrow, hands like ice. Hope has no colour here, no texture or sound.

I am a sliver of bone on a quest for escape, greed in a cruel fist, a lie that waits at the back of the throat. I pop pills, drown in booze, tie myself up in knots that always unfurl. I am steps never taken and a road grown over with brambles. I am the thorn in a dark night, unkind laughter, vapid tongue. I try so hard to become fiction, to become wind, to become the storm.

I still allow myself to wonder, does the uncovering of darkness shed light? Can wings grow if they have never known the sky? Tonight, I wait for the rain to cleanse me, or perhaps just wash me away.