The Hope Branch

It feels like I'm in the last chapter, the last stage, the last third of a night that will not end. It's never been this dark, this lonely, this hopeless. The darkness overpowers my thoughts and I see nothing else. I just want it to end. I just want to sit here and wait for a sunrise that I don't think will come. How do I make it through this? What's the point? Do I even want to make it through this? Hope is a cursed thing. Every time I lean on the hope branch, it breaks and the fall is harder every time. It becomes easier to stay in a hopeless state, unsupported, but I'm afraid of the painful dark and I want out.