I Try

I try to contain the emotional pain with every fiber of my being. The hurt is so deep. Must I face one more day when even one more hour is unimaginable.

Will sleep be the only enduring escape. if nothing else, at least time will pass...I suppose.

And what if even then, sleep won't come. What page can I turn?

Alone, so alone in this darkened world that lays crumpled around me.

...or is that me, broken on the ground