" It warps reality with its unseen hold:
The colors of your world are drained out,
Bled from your mind until
All you have left is an ashy, unending gray.

You are unable to see beauty any more,
It killed all that was beautiful
And left you to flounder in the ugly abandon. "

― Maddy Kobar , Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems