My Inner Enemy

As quick as someone flipping a switch

I feel a wave of emotion course over me

And my stomach begins to churn

I feel a longing to be comforted

Is there anything that will fill this void

I sense a deafening blankness in my mind

I contemplate running away

Away from all this erroneous unease

It now seems impossible to break free

I clamber over fences and fortifications

In an attempt to evade certain capture

I feel obscurity surrounding my body

Now there’s nowhere I can hide

What will it to do to me this time

I could attempt to reason with it

But it has no rationale to utilize

I am besieged by its mischievous influences

It has me wrapped in an odious embrace

I fear I will relinquish my reason and surrender

Is there a way to displace its grasp on me

I search frantically for the answers

If I remain still perhaps it will think I’m gone

I know my attempts to evade are futile

So I give in and call a friend for support

It can’t manipulate reasoning outside my mind

This is my way out, away from this brute

Surely he will not return after being outwitted

Next time I will be ready, if it decides to return

With my reason intact and support standing by

I will conquer this ageless enemy of mine

~David Phillips~