Hunter in the Shadows

It hides in the shadows

Watching me and waiting

For a chance to strike

To bring sorrow and strife

Into...

My life

It stalks me

I am its prey

It eats away

At my light

With this hanging around

All the time

How could I ever

Shine bright?

It makes me angry

It makes me sad

Sometimes it causes me

To make people around me feel bad

I don't want to be this way

I don't want to feel this way

But it hangs over me

Stays with me

Like an unloving melody

It only brings gloom

Don't want it to spread

Stay locked in a room

Want it to go away

But can't speak up

Keep it to myself

Keep it at bay

It doesn't live

It does not breathe

So how can it have

Such an effect on me?

It's an evil thing

That only brings

Suffering

I live with it

Day by day

Try to make the blackness fade

It's not so easy

But it's the only way

To keep it from haunting me

This wickedness' name

It starts with a 'd'