Contender

I fight
With music
With faith
With art
I fight
With dancing
With cleaning
With friends
I fight
With movies
With giving
With sleep
I fight
Not to feel
The all consuming darkness
Not to feel
The loneliness, the fear
Not to drown and suffocate
Simultaneously
In my own thoughts and in the judgements of others
I fight in silence
So as to survive
Another moment
Another hour
Another day
I fight
Because victory is much sweeter than surrender
Because I'm not just fighting for myself
I fight to live, to love, for freedom
From the tyranny of that
Which beckons me to fail
I FIGHT