I know it's been a long time since I posted a poem, and even longer since it's been a CH poem, but I figured it was about time and this one came to me. Hope you like it.

I feel tears press behind my eyes,
mixed in with the pain.
Like a sound wave it rocks me now,
as I try to save myself from shame.
Blown back, almost off my feet,
standing barely on a crumbling ledge.
I wince as a hammer pounds in,
the invisible pain wedge.
Holding on to nothing but air,
I try to find the strength to breathe.
Inside my head, monsters and demons,
viles unknown continue to seethe.
Going down in a fit of flames,
try to hold on for just one more round.
Praying to every goddess and god,
this won't be the one to bring me down.
The tears finally ease up,
letting my bleary, exhausted eye see.
I won this one baby, until next time.
The beast has got nothing on me.

Felicia