The 'pit' Poem by Gordon Cross

Looking down deeply inside there's nothing left to hide
Stripped bare of all hope & dreams to where I want to scream

The pit of despair grips me I can't breath there's just no air
Do I climb up or slide back down I really truly just don't care

Always to try & do what's right but sleep won't come tonight
Your mind races with thoughts of times past that didn't last

The future's so bleak, your bodies weak with nothing to seek
It's hard to come back into the light, the depth is as dark as night

Fighting back on the walls closing in on your mind every day
There's no words, no expression of feelings of what to say

Random desperate thoughts & images casually that float about
Waking sweat soaked from dreams you scream & you shout

Leave me alone leave me be for I'm just a person can't you see
What was once now is the past, the future may be or may not last

Grasping & clinging on for a bit longer wishing I was a bit stronger
Everything you try nothing seems good as you go on for longer

That's it now as I lie here and pray for sleep
Tomorrows another day I may or may not keep..