Echoes

Echoes of my past

Shadows of old

My memories lambast

Leaving me cold

There was an age

When I was proud

And I could gauge

The world around

But now my mind

In pieces shattered

I can no longer find

What once mattered

And so I sink

Into a deep depression

And begin to drink

To seek suppression

Suppress my thoughts

Those troubling me

Demonic thoughts

I cannot free

So in the gloominess

A solitude form

A far-reaching bareness

My soul is torn

And so I try

To quell my pain

From the drink

I can’t refrain

For only the drink

Changes me

So I can’t think

And sets me free