Staring down into the abyss

I ponder what I could possibly miss

I cannot stand what I can see

As it is the abyss staring back into me

How can I escape this stranglehold

Which feeds the young and kills the old

I stare on forever without blinking

The abyss lies there silently thinking

I hear growling and know there comes a fight

I resist becoming a monster with all my might

I look below as the abyss ebbs and swells

Terror of things to come inside of me wells

As I descend through clouds to see clearly

I stop at a vantage just as I've grown weary

Finally I realized from the edge where I sat

That the abyss is a mirror polished and flat