INTERNAL BATTLE by Vishaka Aguilera

(Editors note:  In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, the poems we feature this week are meant to contribute to raising awareness toward this cause. All are welcome to participate)

This poem is about my fight through depression...

I hope by sharing my Internal Battle it'll motivate and encourage others to keep on fighting as well.

Internal Battle

by Vishaka Aguilera

The Sun battles the Moon each day

Pushing his way into the sky

But always falling back into the horizon

Many of us fight this constant war inside

We fight our own battles

Others seldom see

The troubles we face everyday

That make our insides shake and rattle

There's a war going on inside my head

My thoughts are twisted and dark

Yearning to see the light

Searching for something I cannot find

Hours of the day go by quickly

While the nights drag on

Leaving me with battle wounds and scars

I grow tired and weak yet strive to fight on

The Sun is now rising

Filling me with golden warmth

The dark and light coexist

My internal battle no longer firing.

Vishaka Aguilera is a nursing major who plans on becoming a pediatric nurse. She lives in North Central Florida but dreams of living back in California one day. She has been writing poetry since she was young and loves to paint in her free time. 

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