My world has no color like a black and white photo

Birds songs have been muted

And the waves of the ocean lay motionless

Each step I take is harder than the previous

Each breath I take lifts my lungs and pushes aginst the empty chamber where my heart used to lay rest

Is there someone out there to change all of this

Or is my life nothing but quicksand

Swallowing everything beautiful around me

Taking away the things that used to make me smile

Is it such an incumbersum force that color, music, hope, and love cannot escape its grasp

Am I sucked it too far past my knees

Am I trying to hard to find you that in my fight I sink deeper

I can't let my mind free for my mind is impriosoning my body

I need someone before in over my head

Before my last breath is nothing more than a relfex

Not an effort to survive, rather an instinct of human nature

Bring me away for the trecherous egulfing clutches of lonliness

Be the color and beauty of my painting.

Be the notes on my score of music

Bring a smile back to this sadden face

Be my light, my love, my saving grace.