Bliss

What gives life meaning,
When everything seems to pull you down?
Darkness surrounds you,
As happiness fades away.
Through your eyes everything looks burdened,
With nothing in sight to lift the weight.
How did things get this way,
Going through life with no reason to smile.
Trying to keep it all inside,
Not wanting other to see what I hide.
These feelings buried deep within,
Fester, with no way for me to win.
Pain, what a gift!
Letting me feel like I am alive.
Can I be freed from this bliss?
To be alive in ways more than this.