It is a mystery; like something made up Evading the understanding range of hordes Experience - the only way to strike chords The worst state of mind a human can reach A dark and forboding heaviness that breach; An immoveable gloom that incapacitates I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy This dejecting thing called depression; Holding me a slave, owning me in supression When this darkness descent and covers me It's chokehold so strong and to the tee I believed it would choke the life out of me Breathing became hard and did I struggled! Then I recall to breathe; to breathe deeply Breathe in through the nose, then breathe out Inhale, hold and exhale through the mouth   Some days are uncertain and frightful Still some days feel lively and hopeful Materializing into interaction with people But the dark days would descend sooner They always come in a rush than later Keeping my eyes open would be laboured For the pain becomes blinding and unsettled So familiar, yet so despairing and unmuzzled An intimacy I abhor yet one I grasped One that hugs me in a tight embrace That literally shuts the light out of my face And makes me most uncertain of my pace A glimmer of hope remains unabated though Indicating a future where I am in control Making choices and feeling sure like before Where the sun shines and the birds sing in galore   Hopeless and desperate from exposure Feeling debilitated from numbing enclosure A trip to and back the dark end of the noose; The world seem apt without me on the loose The darkened mind is muddled and contends Within and without for light and darkness And yet a sojourn in the darkened distress Ultimately reveal the light's exuberance, The existence of darkness is light's evidence Comfort is at hand with every agony Hope is at the other end of despair, ready The gloom buckles at the promise of clarity For the Light of the World has arose The Son of Man with offer one cannot refuse; Heaven; love, hope, clarity, immortality ensue In a state where one will never again confuse   Armed with that glimmer of Living Hope It's redemption working in me confidence Surrendering to it's graceful assurance Accepted and joyful like never before Surging for the climb, strength restored To defeat the ache of the darkness again Endurance and grit has been regained Like the multitude before us who exemplify That there is possibility beyond depression Left with the scars from regeneration Equipped to use the power of choice to be Recognising the Sovereign Hand that be Turning my darkness into light and hope From the bog secure my feet on rock Trained me to be still and trust Him- my Rock Daily leads me with loving kindness in might And kept me by His song in the Night.