Geography of My Mind

Another day begins
a day in my battered life.
Trials and tribulations.
Happiness and pain.
My anguished mind struggles to comprehend the futility of it all.

Hoping, wishing, grasping
for a single spark of joy.
Monotony and self doubt
sit high upon their thrones in the hierarchy of my mind.

Outside the opposite manifest.
Happy, fun and fearless.
But the truth is harsh and brutal.
Depression, the highest peak in the mountain range of my mind.
A steep and narrow snow capped summit
abraided by the harsh winds of ruthless reality.
A reality full of lies and painful memories.
Sinkholes of betrayal,
Deserts of depression,
And oceans of lost dreams...