Writing.....

Warrioress 

n. a woman engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier. a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness

My old friend, my bitter archenemy...how shall I call you? 

Perhaps you prefer the anonymity, the bitter secret

Found in the distortion you hide beneath your awful shell.

You are nothing and yet you are everything

Hideous fog, the stench of poisoned breath

Devilish creeping power, your mud squelches me.

Ah, mysterious and dreadful fiend of the darkness, 

You slither through my inmost being like the serpent

In Eden around the tree, taunting Eve from its 

Scaly perch, destroying innocence like a cloud of smoke.

Beneath your yolk of chains I suffer, fighting the squalor

Release your ultimate weapon, O my enemy,

And the missile of Fear, the bomb of Isolation, 

The mushroom cloud of Abandonment surrounds my corpse

Chokes my mind, quenches my fire, drowns my soul beneath the horror 

Breaks my back again, shying away from the 

Toxic lashes of your filthy whip.

Pervasive mist the hue of a dull night in midsummer

Blinds my already darkening eyes 

In the nightmare of the stifling, polluted air I suffocate

You kill me slowly, alone and yet surrounded 

I stretch in vain through the graying marshmallow bubble 

A jail cell could not be worse: sweet and yet hideous

The ultimate trap, seems alluring, desirous 

But inwardly this treacherous captivity is sticky and colorless

Devoid of air, of sound, of sight, of love 

Providing nothing more than a shallow reminder of futility. 

This warrior remains despite your best efforts

Covered in scars, soaked with blood, sweat, and tears

Oozing with grief, anger, hateful resentment at your inhuman cruelty

Yet forcing the smile of grim and unlikely victory 

She steps forward and unsheathes a new sword, yet unbroken 

By the twisted terror of the midnight reign of death you unleashed

And she raises her blood-stained face to the stormy skies

Defiantly she thrusts her blade through the thickening smog

Once more to battle the ever-present enemy 

That vile, repulsive monster named 

Depression.