When the dark seems to be getting darker

And the hole you are in seems to get deeper

When you cant run any farther

And then you stumble, and finally fall.

When you lie there on your face,

Tears streaming warm and wet.

You're down and out of the race,

And feeling nothing but regret.

You never signed up for this battle,

Didn't ask for any of this.

No matter how hard you try, it does not matter,

because you know you'll never win.

They ask you if you are okay, 

and you lie, like you have for so long.

but how can everything be alright,

when everything

                         is

                             all

                                  wrong?