Misery

• Vannessa Hamer, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2010

Misery.
Like a hungry rat knawing at your heart,
a sense of angry, denial and fear.
Slowly feeding on your saddest memories,
Growing stronger before spreading.
Taking over your every limb,
And gradually controllking your mind.
Forcing you to be isolated,
Blaming and cursing yourself for what had happened.
Advicing you about the worst,
Turning you into one of its kind, a souless monster.
There is no way to hide from it,
As it continues to grow stronger.
But soon you find a light,
a refuge, and a friend.
Hope.
Filling your heart with love and understanding.
Leaving you forfilled.
Misery grows weaker from starvation,
Evoping to the deepest parts of you heart.
Waiting for the day when it can contiue on its choas once more...