--- title: Demons date: 2016-04-12T06:20:52Z modified: 2016-04-12T06:20:52Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/demons/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1678 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/demons.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2016-04-12T06:20:52Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![demons](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/demons.jpg) i lie here, exhausted and tired, chasing one dream after another, over here and over there; i sit quietly, alone in this room, with a smile to hide the demons inside me, trying to take control and trying to [break the silence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/breaking-the-silence.md) and the smile from within; one by one, i [push them all away](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/pushing-me-away.md) and i push (suppress) them all down, way down so that they don’t [rise](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/rise-and-shine.md) up again, but each that goes down, two rises up; [feeling](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/oh-what-a-feeling.md) exhausted and feeling dead from within, i struggle and i struggle through this life, hoping for a silver lining, as i keep fighting the demons – inside my head and outside in life; smiling for the world, crying and fighting within, the demons inside of me desperately try to get into my head, for once they are in, the walls will crumble down, no more resistance against [the](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) darkness; too afraid to go to the other side, i am not ready, not yet, i harden my heart, harden my soul and buckle up for a long and bloody battle; ——————- [image via](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zFzHJD1X2Nk/VMuMDLw-9rI/AAAAAAAACtU/I3c-DcwlYtw/s1600/Negative+entities+and+demons,+how+to+protect+yourself.jpg)