The Land Of The Alter Egos

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What do I do

When life turns me

Upside down and inside out?

 

What do I do

When she tries to dig out

My deepest shades of grey and black?

 

The tests of Life

Seem too brutal

For a young heart of glass,

Still blooming from

Its early dawn of childhood.

 

Maladies stalk me

Like shadows in the dark,

And death like my shadow

Follows me in life.

 

Life and Death- two alter egos,

Synonymous.

 

The woods that teemed with life

Now seem a graveyard in the dark

Haunted by fear and evil plots,

Waiting to pounce upon an unsuspecting soul.

 

The sun long gone,

Hidden behind clouds of doubt

Has taken good judgment

Along with it.

 

The crimson rose in Life’s hand

Seems like a dagger red,

Dripping with the blood

Of innocent souls.

 

“O judgment, thou art fled”

Said Marc Antony

And I laughed it off.

But now I see the truth,

Or is it not?

 

Like an angry swarm of bees,

Lurked howling dark forces

Waiting for their prey,

To cast a blinding veil.

 

As I walked through

The ruins of a bemired path,

I saw broken dreams left to rot

And long held faith left to die.

 

This place seems a world of undead

And death seems but an illusion,

As life once did.

Are life and death two illusions extant?

 

Those who live die and

Those who die live,

Or so they say.

But does one really die or live?

 

Now in a long time

I saw a ray of hope,

And when I followed it

I found a blooming heliotrope.

 

When I looked up,

I saw the Angel of Hope,

Glowing golden under the sun

With a faint mesmerizing smile.

 

From her white feathered wings

Fell a delicate snowy feather.

I caught it and kept it

In my pocket, close to my heart.

 

Now I know

I must go on,

From this land of the alter egos

To one of truths and answers

To my innumerable questions.

 

So, fare thee well

Mighty alter egos.

My time with you is done.

 ~14-4-2014.

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