When Happiness Is Found (#MindOverMatterContest)

The Sadness

It's an odd feeling when I lay upon my bed while it's very dark. It's an odd feeling when it's very quiet, and every noise seems to have been muted.

When the darkness and the quiet come together in a startling clash, that's when it's hardest to deal with. When the dark and the quiet form a hole inside my heart. Icy numbness fills me up, deep inside my veins.

It seems as though all the emotion in the world have disappeared. The vibrant colors I once knew, they've washed away. They've faded, and there's nothing to bring them back. The world has become something else, my world is sad and cold. It's black and white. It's dark and it's quiet.

I feel it creep closer, and closer. I feel like the walls are inching more and more. The walls are closing. The ceiling is dropping, leaving me trapped in the dark.

I think, where has it gone? Where has my happiness gone? Have I left it in the ocean drowning? In the oxygen-less space above? Or has it left me? Am I not enough?

This feeling is soon consuming me whole.