Darkness Poem by Melanie Walendowsky Baker

The darkness can creep back
and catch me unaware
it can melt all the smiles
and my senses impair.

I can feel disbelief again
and find myself falling.
Hopelessness is back
and darkness keeps calling.

I can't find my way again
back to where I reached.
Where there was evidence
of life, light that breached;

the darkness I had,
the darkness returned,
the darkness so thick
the darkness I spurned.

(Itajaí,15 June 2009)