Alone in the Depths

Drowning in the deep well of my emotions
I gasp for air between the tears
The tears keep coming as the waters rise.
I watch myself become my own demise.

I delve too deep and I love too hard.
There is nothing and no one for me in this pit
Yet I cannot return to the surface
For I do not belong there either.

None who venture down linger long.
They do not understand the depths.
A hint and a glimmer briefly they’ll show.
But then they tug the rope and return to the surface.

It seems I will always delve deepest and love hardest
Those who cannot return the same
And so I shall remain in the depths and the darkness.
Forever surrounded but forever alone.