The Dark Passenger

Lurking in the murky depths of my mind, he waits.
Praying on my weaknesses, causing my bad traits.
Not a day goes by where he doesn’t crawl through my head,
Wrecking everything in his path, leaving my dreams for dead.
How I wish he would just go away, and leave me alone,
How he’d stop the evil desires, the ever drilling tone.
I just wish he’d end the sadness,
The cruelties, the questioning, and bring back the gladness.
I just wish he’d stop, he’d let me be,
And leave with the misery that he’d thrown at you and me.

For you see, my Dark Passenger isn’t just a small thought,
He is an evil, a voice begging to get me caught.
He forces me to do wrong, to let out the bad,
To ruin others life, to bring in the sad.
He is the bottle opener of my troubles, the killer of my will,
The destroyer of my hopes, the seeker of the thrills.

And after he is content, and has done all he desired,
Standing in the ruins of my life, barely even tired,
He is always ready for more, ready to take out another part of me,
Ready to make me feel down, ready to throw away the key.

He causes me to want more, to take all I can,
To be all for myself, to be the higher man.
No one is allowed to be free from the damage he makes,
No one is free from the lives he takes.
The Dark Passenger will always be there, nearby, watching,
Cancelling out my good thoughts, painting over, blotching.
But, however dark the times seem, I must always fight back,
I must not let him take over, I must attack.

Try I will, and try I must,
And faith in myself I must trust,
But however much I try,
However much time passes by,
However much my efforts seem to be working,
The Dark Passenger will always be there, lurking…