I'm trying to push through,
To weather this storm the best I can.
I'm trying to endure the fire,
Trying to stand on sinking sand.

I feel myself drowning,
The waves crashing over my head,
As the cold abyss below
Brings me closer to my eternal bed.

My vision begins to blur
As each extremity starts to numb.
I dread the man I find within,
The man that I've become.

Clawing to reach the break—
To escape this watery doom—
I lose hope to continue onward,
As, my life, this depression consumes.

Just, however, at the ordained time,
A gasp of...