--- title: Breaking Down (Into the Darkness) date: 2016-11-24T11:12:26Z modified: 2025-05-22T12:56:52Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/breaking-into-darkness/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1710 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Breaking-Down-Into-the-Darkness.jpg" featured_image_alt: Breaking Down (Into the Darkness) author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2025-05-22T12:56:52Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![Breaking Down (Into the Darkness)](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Breaking-Down-Into-the-Darkness.jpg) Breaking Down (Into the Darkness) Long ago I built these fences around me, to protect my soul from the vagaries of life, to hide from the wretched world that we call home, to let me be myself; I guess I got lost, somewhere along the way, because I stopped to fortify these fences, as I assumed I [could](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/could-this-be-it.md) never get hurt (after-all these years); Now, as [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/coffee-and-chaos.md) slowly creeps and crawls its way into my system, I find myself stranded, I find myself weak, against an invisible force, I feel trapped, bound by the shackles of existence; under a dark twilight, I slowly slip back into [the darkness](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md), that I once escaped from, that I once left behind; with my fences (walls) down, I can no longer quell these monsters, that rage within me, as they try to take control of my senses; I am just a kite dancing in this hurricane of [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/life.md), struggling to hold on to what I have got, trying to navigate through this raging tempest of [existence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/existence.md), while I descend into the darkness from within;