Sadness Attacks

With this poem I was working on personification...in this case I personify Sadness.



Sadness creeps around a tree
Looks unto me
Unarmed and helpless
Under the moons gleam

Exposes its unearthly appearance
I stare with feet adhered to the ground
I can't run from it anymore
My weakness, it has found

Sadness reaches through me
Locks its fingers onto my heart
I just gave it up
Sadness is now a part

I'm weak and helpless
I'm a hostage, there I lain
Sadness laughs shrilly at me
I cry with piercing pain

Sadness tugs my heart
Attempting to pull it free
With his vigorous talons
The pain weakens me

I fall to my knees
I cry out, "I will not trip
God help me arise to the fight!"
Then Sadness released his grip

Pain is relieved from my pulse
From my desperate prayer
It drove Sadness away
It gave him quite a scare

He ran back into the darkness
He tore for the shade of the trees
I looked until it was safe
Then I rose from my knees

Bloodied and battered
I find my knees tattered
But my heart resumes its pattern
Since it's now stronger, the pain mattered