Darkness
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The night is chasing the sun. It's always like this at home, the deep sky getting darker the further you tilt your head up. It's nearly black up there, at the top. (The top? The middle? The end?
The night is chasing the sun. It's always like this at home, the deep sky getting darker the further you tilt your head up. It's nearly black up there, at the top. (The top? The middle? The end?
The night is chasing the sun. It's always like this at home, the deep sky getting darker the further you tilt your head up. It's nearly black up there, at the top. (The top? The middle? The end?
The night is chasing the sun. It's always like this at home, the deep sky getting darker the further you tilt your head up. It's nearly black up there, at the top. (The top? The middle? The end?
Fireflies glow in the dark.
Lightning always strikes something.
Rain pours down.
Lightning and Rain like to speak to each other a lot.
When she flies.
When she lights up.
Heart soaring,
people bright,
this is the feeling of flight.
I cannot explain much,
there is no explanation,
Once I believed in something real
Had faith in a love I would feel
But that hope I had collapsed and it faded away
Drowned in the darkness of another day
The hope I had disappeared long ago
"NIGHT LONG"
*This society is seeming, if you can't not and haven't involve in atrocious things you seem counted out in the society.*
I ran into the woods as the monsters chased me.
They could feel the pounding of my heartbeat with each step I took...
Thoomp-thoomp, thoomp-thoomp.
They wanted me dead, to carve out my heart and eat my soul.
The darkness sweeps across the land
It covers everything like a sheet
Not a star is visible
For even they were darkened
Every light that was shining
The darkness sweeps across the land
It covers everything like a sheet
Not a star is visible
For even they were darkened
Every light that was shining
There're days when the sun is upWhen the solar rays hit youYou feel been dropped from the topAnd you end up right on the screw.
i crave for blood to fill my arms,
my thighs.
like red ink on a peice of paper.
i enjoy it, though, it's a problem
i can never shake.
Blackened wood with scratches from a pen.The tip tore through paper and bled.The drip of hot wax, signed and sealed.A flame burns below dried flowers.It reaches up to burn the petals.Just out of reach, the flame dies out.A breeze from the open win
i'm sick of writing poems instead of speaking my mind
but it's hopeless to dream because i will never find
someone to listen to me talk about my favorite shades of green
and the reasons behind my obsession with the unseen
if you have stayed
longer than expected
you are one among many
for all acquaintances
grown attached
unintentionally rally
if you’ve seen my light
“I want to go to New York”
She says.
I look back at her.
My little sister
With excitement in her eyes.
Now she stands
He lifted his head,
Screamed with all his might,
‘Why clouds?
Why do you pour on me every day and every night?’
The clouds looked down,
Boomed with a thunderous laugh,
‘Why would you deserve
how can a nightmare be so bright
of a world filled with darkness
of the bright, its shining light
that leaves people with badness
the dark meets the light in eternal scilence
Darkness is a paradise
Yes for me it's nice
For I am a nyctophile
Who really loves night.
The silence so loud
I can hear every sound
With darkness so black,
My imagination abounds.
Fading away from this oppressive light
drifting into an endless night
Happiness renewed under different circumstance
Embracing the energy of this maniacal dance
On ethereal wings I flee from my spark
Darkness overwhelms as night falls
Daylight seems so far away
The tunnel stretches, night continues
Daylight seems so far away
Dreams of light and feeling warm
Daylight seems so far away
As a young black boy on the streets of the CapitalI strive for a good living through the path of moralityBut I was lost within my act of InnocenceAnd Trouble found me.Led me through Crusty Tunnels and Medieval DungeonsShowed me the Gory Light thro
i wish you would hold me
like you hold that glass bottle
like its the only thing that can comfort you,
the only thing that accepts you,
the only thing capable of keeping your demons at bay
Ears pounding from the sound of my own disappearance
My feet forever ceaseless in their own escape
Limbs burning, gazed focused solely on the exit
Running
"I'm fine," I say when asked how I'm doing,
"I'm good," I tell you when something's wrong,
on the outside I may appear happy and joyful,
but you've never seen my hidden world.
I seemed to have stepped foot in the wrong directionThat put me on the wrong path.
The world lights me on fire,I would put it out.
The sun loses it's light,I found light in Jesus.
What is it about the night that makes people so scraed?
Is it because of the fact that they know that if something bad were to happen, they would not be sparred?
Vantablack merges into the newly discovered dark.Where it dances in reverberation,Gallivanting cryptic thoughts,Halting the predestined fortune. Corruption waivers through, rippling the pallid illumination.Merelyy enticing re=compensation,abolishi
La luna llena cae del cielo
Con una luz intensa de relampago
Pero sin sonido alguno
Libre de las cadenas de la gravedad
Cae
Y desaparece en la oscuridad
La osuridad completa
The black clouds are rolling in
The lightning cracks like a whip
As the thunder roars with the pride of a lion
The sky's blue slate is wiped clean by the darkest grays
And shadows begin to cover the streets
It was the writer
Bertold Brecht
who spoke of the " darktimes"
so eloquently
yet that darkness referred
to society,
politics...
and today, one can certainly identitify-
but on this day,
All we are is
just shadows
Without bodies,
immaterialized.
What will matter then
sifting through dark
No flesh left to torture
no substance left to taint
This life haunts me
I see it licking its lips.
Glowing red eyes in
the woods staring at a calf;
a small growl came;the wind
is howling. I stroll to see Goldie.
My dear, do not tell me I deserve better than your love. That your heart does not shine bright enough to reflect mine. For my heart only shines this brightly because it had to been burned.
please don't let me go
i whispered to you
in the dark of your room
you gripped me tight
and promised
but how can you
make that promise
when you don't know
what the future holds
Depression isn’t gentle
She doesn’t knock when she enters the room
Or text you before she comes over
Instead she kicks down the door and takes what is hers
She does not need your opinion
Darkness has fallen
All the hues of the earth have dripped off into the universe
And the last ray of light has hid itself long ago from dependent eyes.
As I sit upon my window seal, the distorted images I make of creation,
Scarlet flames of fire
dance across my fingers.
The light cannot harm me,
for I am its master.
Fire bends to my will,
and dies at my command.
The dark can't consume me,
I am not scared to walk the darkest path, for I draw comfort from it. It sheilds me and protects me from the true horrors of this world: the light.
I'm tired of thinking,
In test dates,
And terms papers.
When all I really want,
Is to use my imagination.
The stars call my name,
But I'm busy getting A's
Anna was walking late one night,
Hunting for some food to bite
But she fell down a simple flight
Of stairs that truly were a sight
They found Anna the following day,
Sitting at low tide amongst the creatures of the world underneath my lungs
Staring into the unbreaking blackness of the air hung in smoke
My eyes a lighthouse that gaze into the unknown reality
why is it so hard for me to find happiness? maybe because that i don’t know whats happiness for me.
A night with a shining moon
Surrounded by stars all around
When there was silence and everyone was sleeping
No noise or any kind of whispering
Suddenly a voice, I heard
I was astonished and totally feared
My closest acquaintance is the rain
as I listen to the soft trickles of barness
Coldness of the lungs but my breathless air is still warm
Clouding the unfocused skies
This is a story of trial and strife
The silent killer and the bloody knife
But this story is not all that is seems
No, you must look deeper into what it truly means.
The darkness within that consumes a soul
I hark back prior to my birth. My words couldn't possibly illustrate this event because man's intelligence communication, moreover words didn't exist.
I tried to be hopeful
I looked to the bright side but what do you do when the light looks right back at you with disgust?
I have to keep going I shouldn't give up but wait---
Where did everybody go?
Some days I feel like a burning candleLong forgotten and wearing thinUntil finally I run outUntil finally I drown myselfUntil finally my light goes outAnd it’s all my fault
Falling into darkness,
Weightlessness diluted by 'helping hands'.
Screaming for help-
But no one comes
Trying to grab hold of something-
But you're hand always slips.
Terror unimaginable,
Mystery my dear
That's all you may see
Some see a challenging view
Some see a hurting soul
Who were you?
Who will you be?
Who is this beauty I see in the darkness?
She is my reflection but calls me a different name.
My lost eyes hold a desperate call for help,
The moon is my soul
The darkness is my comfort
It still lingers in me,
How can this sadness be?
The voices telling me what I can and can not be.
Feeling hopeless, every hour.
Like a never blooming flower.
What is the point of life?
One cannot belong to his belongings
That much is certain, no matter our longings.
The darkness is dying, gives birth to the dawn,
We, not objects, should be the ones who do the pawning.
Sitting in a box that’s way over my head.
I know it’s made of card, but today it’s dense like lead.
I could claw my way out, or put my foot through the wall.
For a very long time I’ve had a friend named darkness, darkness is always there for me in my darkest moment whispering into my ears telling me that I am his puppet he is my master.
I don't know why I struggle to write about the good things
Why does intensity only live in the darkness - the pain and depression?
Why is the grey of night so much more powerful than the color of day?
When I picture you. I see you in black and white.The sun is just breaking the day and your shuffling down the sidewalk in your usual manner.Drumming your fingers along the side of some graffiti stained building.
When I picture you. I see you in black and white.The sun is just breaking the day and your shuffling down the sidewalk in your usual manner.Drumming your fingers along the side of some graffiti stained building.
Dear solstice,
Such a long darkness
Opens my soul
Left unattended in the distraction of sunshine I forgot how much you can give to me
Everything is fine
Its only one line
The darkness continues to stalk
As I continue to nock
They gradually increase
Until I decide to cease
The scars still remain
But I am no longer in pain
The sun comes down through the dark clouds
The lights go out on a melancoly hill
The dark comes when the light is out of bounds
The light decays in my hands like a disolving pill
Light doesn't last a day or two
Trunks thin and the grass fluffy.
The sun shimmered.
In the fantasy.
of love and growth.
But, the darkness--
The light killed it.
So darkness died away.
The light won.
So the forest grow.
The world is at its end,
A primal war has begun.
Mother Nature’s children are fighting
To see who’s the strongest one.
Who will win this war?
Through the sky Death shall rise,
On rotten wings will he fly.
With the stench of torture on his clothes,
He sends Fear into all his foes.
there is no emptier crescent of feeling
than wandering through unfeeling, unending crowds,
more alone than you ever have felt
in your lifetime.
There's a darkness in my veins,
I hadn't noticed before.
as I stare at my hands,
I feel so lost, unsure.
I must have stared for hours,
for when I did look up.
I saw the dark before me.
Secrets utterly embarrassing and cruel.
Mine’s no different.
It’s dark,twisted,deep and wet.
Tears shall flow out with a never-ending sight,a river rises from sadness.
I'll make the most of my time left to spend, 1
For a call from the tower of silence cries,
"You too into dust will surely descend,
Fear is a looming gray
Looks like a rainy day where the sun won’t come out
Smells like the stink of sulfur
Tastes like bitter acid
Dear Friendship,
Why do you make me so happy?
Why do you make me so confused?
Why do you make me feel lost?
Why so happy? Why so sad? Why so angry?
I am afraid of many things
Like the darkenss and what it brings
I think of monsters that may be lurking in the dark
like clowns that are prowling around in the park
I told my mother and she told me dearly
An uncontrollable wave of doom
Locked alone in a dark room.
Shadows moving all around,
Steadily creeping with no sound.
I scream for help, but no one comes,
I'm stuck imaging what's to succumb.
There’s always been a darkness
A never-ending pain
A pit of infinite loneliness
A hole within my chest.
I’d tried so hard to be rid of it
I live with a creature
Deep inside my chest.
It is made of shadow,
I can’t even beat it at my best.
This beast urges me to die,
Shadow...
Now she's the girl he told everyone about,
bragging, changing, manipulating the reality of what really happened.
She got stripped of her clothes, stripped of her trust, stripped of her youth.
I’ve been in love twice,
One was dark
The other light.
Both had their qualities,
I loved them for different reasons.
The dark one was like me,
You were perfect...too perfect,
Your warm smile sheltered your bitter words
Those deep blue eyes focused far beyond me
You only confirmed my greatest fear:
Through the darkness
There shall always be light
While through the joy
There shall always be fright
But through the pain
There is nothing but might
I was in love once,
And a painful ordeal it was.
I tried so hard to be the perfect one,
To be the one that she wanted.
I didn’t realize then,
I am a fallen angel,
Darkness is my garment,
And fury is my weapon.
I was once wreathed in light,
And I did the bidding of my master.
Silence is my enemy
A true and worthy foe.
It reminds me of my pain,
And throws away my hope.
It enlists its deadly ally,
Darkness is around me,
I am hidden from the light,
The life that I strive to live in.
There was once a Bright Star,
It penetrated the dark.
It had dark blue eyes like the night sky
Who would of thought it would cry
It wonder down the street as it beg for help
Darkness followed it through the air
One day hoping it sees the light
For what’s darkness,
But a contrast to light?
The only reason light can exist
Is because there is darkness for it to illuminate.
Light heals,
My life is a black hole,
Sucking in everything around it.
Even light cannot escape my darkness,
Even those that I love cannot withstand it.
She was always by my side,
And she took away my pain.
She fixed all of my brokenness
That was trapped inside my brain.
She shone brighter than a star,
I am a tortured human soul,
The world would be better, If I go.
If I leave this world behind,
What is the place I’ll find?
I can’t live, with this pain,
The darkness envelops me.
No one sees it.
No one will.
Only me.
I feel it,
I see it,
And I know it.
I spoke to the darkness,
I said to her,
Oh where for art thou bitter cruel?
she replied, Why Not?
Are thy afraid of the darkness upon us?
She reaches into thy soul
And oh, what pain she moves us to.
I cannot help thee
No matter how hard ye plea,
For she has a hold of me as well.
That dark slowly consumes me
It’s like inching closer to infinity
Is this what it’s like to not be able to see?
Don’t touch me
Or come near me
Have you ever looked up at the sky during a cold winter night, wondering if there’s somewhere nothing exists?
Where time doesn’t have meaning?
Where even rogue planets don’t dare go?
In the midst of all darkness,
you persist to be better,
you persist to overcome adversity.
Your conviction in hope allows you to believe
in the inevitablity of infinity.
After everything you have achieved,
Through the hollows, into the grey
Across the rolling hills of pain
Run all night till the darkest day.
When shadows behind the mists play
Charge forward to the silent rain
In The Middle
August 31, 2018 ~ Friday
Every person, tall or leaning
Building what they thought was meaning
Sometimes we search for answers
That we can not find
So cryptic and puzzling
And justifiably unkind
Pain and darkness rears its ugly head
This is quite the mystery
Such confusion and frustration
“Don’t fear the dark” is what I was told
I sit in bed covers to chin covered fully
I look left and right playing Look-See
I am sweating and shaky, I don’t know why
My room is dark as I lay with the shadows
A hopeless romantic, a hopeless dream
That’s what is real, and it’s all it will be.
To crush false hope at the source of its seam.
In the dark
Is where you will find yourself
If you do not shape up
And get some help
Avoid hanging around bad company
For they are the ones who bring you down
There is a cloudy scenery
I hate the way you look at me.
The way you smile and turn away.
All I can do is watch aimlessly.
because I know your the
demon inside of me.
I can't escape you.
The dark is real.
Every night i stride through the endless corridors of my mind.
I look for doors i Never find.
I keep searching for freedom from these cells i have built for myself.
One cell for each broken piece.
IT’S DARK
It’s dark, sad,
And a little lonely at times.
I try to write and listen to music for pastimes
But that doesn’t always work when
Everyone has to go through a struggle
Potential pitfalls will try to deter you
Do not ever give up
Keep your head up and guide your way through
Darkness initially may surround you
We are only trying to help you
You are surrounded by darkness
Keep messing around with narcotics
And you will drown in sadness
Things will disappear bit by bit
The walls are caving in
I keep my head down while dark thoughts create a storm in my head.
The black velvet sky blots out the burning sun. I don't know why I'm still here.
My want for breathing is receding and my heart is bleeding for a love
I fight the darkness of the heart
The hidden and dangerous part
Closed with a bolt, local and key
The secret of forgotten past left to be
Lost, there is no way I see out,
Deepening darkness creates my doubt
The picking at my fingers has begun, according to the open scabs on my thumb and index finger, the sun is under its covers.
Do not waste your life away
Hanging around the wrong crowd
For they have nowhere to go
They are obnoxious and loud
The more that you ally yourself with them
Nothing but trouble and turmoil will appear
Darkness and isloation
the only two things I ever used to know
mind your business
hold your head down
don't let anyone know you are here
you exist
you take up space
but that doesn't matter
Silent screams are the worst.
These are the lessons we learn;
sitting quietly is the most brutal form of torture. Violence comes from the silence of our minds.
Here is what we see;
Night
where fist fights strive
flashlights lie
streetlights hide
it embodies all
where we can’t see so we fall
where we lose balls
where we hide in malls
Between the lines I see light
But any type of light it's the kind of light
That you would want to touch
That you can imagine what it would be like to be in that area
How can a parent not care for their child?
Nothing but pure negligence on their part
Sadly, there was a lack of supervision
Right from the start
A dark scenery on display
With lots of sorrow
Time keeps slipping away
Nothing will ever get done
And you get that melancholy feeling
You won't be able to see that sun
You have fallen behind a great deal
There are areas that need improvement
There’s a dark corner
in the back of my room
it speaks to me
And says “I’ll be there soon”
As I lie on my bed
in the fetal position
my eyes are closed
hopin and wishin
Heading down a corruptive path
Will put you in a lot of trouble
Your life will sadly become a dead end
If you do not move on the double
Darkness will rear its ugly head
And the walls will come closing in
Why do people say they
descend into darkness
In truth
it is always an ascension
Walking up stairs after
returning from a trip
or
climbing a ladder into a loft.
Or weaseling your way up
Hanging from the edge of the world
A grip on this reality waning
A river in flight and a flowing sky
An upside down
My celestial home
We were madness
You were a blank white page
I was a dark black ink
I messed up your innocence
And splattered your pages with inks of evil
Now all you are is a mess
A mess just like me
Everyday I see
All around me the smiles
All the love
Then I look to the shadows
The Darkness behind the bright eyes,
The Sorrow under the smile
There are things impossible, things unseen
In the darknesses between each sunbeam,
Nameless shadows, and wordless paths
Spun together in covering laths
They watch and they wait
Oh, the feeling of being trapped,
there's no way out, is there?No, I can't find a way.
I turn every direction, yet I can't seem to find an exit, I'm completely trapped.
Darkness
swallows the light
dampening her spirit
making it impossible to breathe
what is the point
in carrying on?
He sits and stares
At the empty wall before him
Lost in thought
He hears the voices around him
Muffled
As he writes poetry
In his cruel mind
The peeling paint
Seems to mock him
Let the darkness of the clouds grow Let the wind blow
Let the lightning soar Let the thunder roar
You sadly drown in sorrow
Because, you have been led astray
Following bad company was not a good idea
You have drifted away
Window of opportunity will close
There will be nothing for you to gain
Again I lay in bed,
searching for a distraction
to block the dark thoughts stuffed tightly
in the back of my head,
for I am afraid to rest in my own mind.
--Far Away Fallouts (c.p.)
I want to die,
I'm scared of death,
So sometimes I just hold my breath.
I close my eyes and count to ten,
I pussy out and breath again.
Dear Friend,
You are
Precious.
From you hair to you nose
Your freckles to your toes,
You were created for this,
You were created for life.
Dear Friend,
Why can't you just be happy?
My brain is hardwired for sadness
You look tired. Are you sleeping?
Sometimes. It's hard to fall asleep
Why is it so hard to fall asleep?
Dear Anxiety,
Not a day goes by where I am without you
Not a day goes by where I like you
From holding me back
To making me cry
From filling my head with negatvity
To making me freeze
To my First,
I remember the day that I witnessed your impressionable smile and sparkling eyes.
I remember the tiny flutter of my heart, that feeling that you were going to mean something to me.
I wanted you to fill my heart
With something that would never break apart
You plagued my mind by day and night
With your sweet sense of humor and bright glow of light
Contrasting my darkness, destruction and rage
Dear Death,
with your doomsday decor,
your dreary darkly dust,
of hope and memoire
Your claws in every soul,
your seductive gaze at the door,
between life and hope,
The trees they sway.
The wind convey,
Their branches all a ’swinging.
The breeze can whisper,
Make you shiver,
On feathery wisps a ’winging.
The wind grows louder,
Dear Ex Best Friend,
I stand upon the shore of roaring sea
Attempting to see all that I have lost.
I dream what might have been and still might be.
Darkness Is My Partner
Darkness Guides Me Into The Dark
Far Away When Everyone Blinds You
Darkness Lets Me Give My Emotions Out
When you head down a corruptive path
Darkness is what you will often find
Nothing but a somber and gloomy matter
One may sadly lose their mind
All of your trust is thrown out the window
To the person I have been:
You were a young girl who carried the weight
of the world on your shoulders.
You were a sea of consciousness,
Confusion and frustration are present
We may be lost in the shuffle
Just get it together immediately
And move on the double
Nothing but pandemonium
Not a soul knows what is taking place
Conversation has sadly drifted away
All hope is fading
We barely speak to one another
Girl, why are we masquerading?
We need to open up
This eliminates the bad air
Obscurity has reared its ugly head
I’m from a small town,
lonely and lost,
my dysfunctional family,
with a lost hope in humanity,
growing up with so little,
so little to love,
I want to this end
Locked in a cage
Raven wants to live and not hide in darkness
I can't stand this
A celestial light
Shined bright
Like a light beam
In an ethereal dream
A dream of spectrums
Of ideal perfections
You are just standing there in the dark
The look on your face seems grim
The lady of your life has taken lots of abuse
Your outlook looks mighty slim
She feels battered and betrayed
Girl, why do you stay with him?
And make an excuse
Haven't you had enough of his mess?
Along with all of the abuse
Time and time again
You have sadly, sat there and drowned in tears
Where would a student go?
If there was no education
The predicament would not be pretty
Nothing but pure frustration
The doors will be closed
And opportunity passes you by
One cannot function accordingly
He stands in the cornerShade a shadow of black thoughts in my headDraws weights in my skin drawing out
Wait
Slow it down
Stop
Let my mind catch up
Ache
Something missing
Burn
My lungs squeeze helplessly
Muted grey
Shades of pain
Blurry sneers
My arms stretched out
Coils freeze on my limbs
Hanging above soulless concrete
You were never there
Nothing but pure neglect
A child was born
A moment that you seem to forget
Nothing but a dark cloud
Bitterness sadly rears its ugly head
Just take accountability
My mind retraces dark places skin deep hatred of flesh deflated. The escape sedated for freedom pasted a truth that collated heartless faces. I stated the case of pain that wakes and breaks like glass in shattered places.
Sleep, that place where fantasies keep & time repeats merged between the seams of sheets where some nightmares creep at the beat of consciousness in deep. Sleep.
Feel the darkness under your skin?Whispering, Whispering and drawing thin?It’s rising higher, ever so high, But it will come crashing from the sky.Feel the cold crackling in your bone?
The stars that shine throughout the night
Make a path of steady light
The moon that shines high above
Sings a song to the night with love
The shadows far beneath the ground
Cease to ever make a sound
Your light shines bright,
It guides me through the night,
It allows me to see through the depth of the darkness,
And casts deep shadows across the ground from the trees,
Frogs and crickets shout with glee,
The eyes that shine throughout the night
Their corners gleam with delight
The blood that boils, it's very soul
Reflect within it's eyes so bold
Desire to kill, to watch its prey
That rules its life every day
By Joseph Abelardo Conaty
Darkness. It makes me fear.
It makes me sad. It is very near.
Darkness. It knows no fame.
It brings me worry. It brings me shame.
Darkness. It makes me shroud.
Things tend to have a deeper meaning
But, we see selectively
The direction is there
It is not used completely
We are often confused
As a result of the ambiguity
Pain and darkness walk in
Darkness sadly storms on in
And you find yourself sitting in a trance
All opportunity has passed you by
You wish you would have another chance
But, you have hung around the wrong crowd
When the message is spoken
How many of us really listen?
Awareness is everything
But, we sadly live in a oblivion
We search for truth
And yet, we come up empty
Darkness surrounds us
In the mind's eye, I can see naught but a raindrop,Reflecting an emerald world as, on a blade of grass, it is atop.
Anger is a roaring lion hunting for its prey
Deadly as an attacking Black Widow's bite
Soaking up all emotions of joy
Ripping apart strong friendships and,
Leaving a trail, darkness and destruction.
Bound by blood,
This wicked hate
This unsettling darkness,
This thing that only we know about.
Trapped by fears,
We shiver in the cold.
No one knowing what we hold.
Darkness appears
When one is not sincere
Nothing but a cloudy scenery
As a result of the ambiguity
Lots of chaos and confusion
Along with frustration
For it is better to be forthright
She cannot trust you anymore
You have hurt her deeply
Willing to always help
But, you have tortured her completely
Everything is thrown out the window
Fun times have sadly become a memory
Darkness...
Endlessly it spills into eternity.
That primal void of light was a screen across the sky.
And it was...
But yet it was not.
Girl, when we do not communicate with each other properly
We tend to push love away
Joy turns into darkness
Things have got to change
We need to open up to one another
There must be a form of telepathy
A night, no matter how hard it triesWill always be dark.Does the night make you shiver?Does it? Just like a blurry light in the duskiness.I pause to breathe, like the moon does.Down,down into the darkness of the nightGently it goes- the love, the
Heaven-hued are my eyes,
the very ones which have been
blinded a numerous amount of times.
And the cold must try harder
to make me unfurl my fists of agony,
Perhaps
we are all blind sometimes.
Our vision becomes shrouded in the pitch-black
darkness of our own rotten words.
Our blood turns cold, emerald with envy.
Mechanical gears grinding in a damp room beneath the surface
Metal on metal , ear piercing racket , the noise resonates within
Yet remains muted from above
When tears slip down her bronze skin,
She seeks warmth from the fire.
So far away, she craves it with a
Burning desire.
The crisp winds shroud her in the cold.
hello;
i know your out there.
are you also made of fear?
are you father of the shadows?
are you things, both hidden and queer?
more felt than seen;
a rainbow with no gleam.
I want to live till thirty
Before my bones crumble into dust
I want to live till thirty
Before I stare out of ancient eyes
I want to die young
Before the pain becomes unbearable
You sit alone and stare at the wall
And darkness is all that you will find
Messing around with narcotics
Is sadly destroying your mind
Just get yourself some help
And take your life back
He was like the moon, half always hidden
What was it that split him- half darkness, half light?
Crystal blue eyes held dark hidden secrets
Alone and staring at the wall
Surrounding yourself with darkness
Hanging around the wrong crowd
Has sadly, robbed you of your happiness
If you do not take those steps
And move towards the right direction
The world I live in grows dimmer each dayOver time my sight just fades awayAs blindness moves in I take a step backKnowing that darkness is on the attackBut will it be so bad to live like this
March 3, 2017:
This everlasting darkness has really taken its toll on me
I don't think I can control myself anymore
This is spiraling out of control
So fast that I can't even keep track of wherever I used to be
Do not throw your life away
You have a lot to live for
Just get off of those streets
That is for sure
Nothing but terrains and trivails
Along with lots of trouble
Get it all together
I used to live in the darkno one to call for helpno one to share my pain
my heart was brokenmy scars were openi had nothing to lose
Many people look up to the night skybut they always look with a blind eye.If only they would open up their eyes.They would see the beauty in the sky andthey would realize what beauty needs to rise. All around us; So much beautybut none of us seem
Dug myself in deepDeep into this pitI try to climb upwardsTowards the inviting lightWaiting at the top with open armsBut I fallDarkness surrounds meThreatening to pull me under
A life shadowed in blackWhere nothing good ever seems to lastWhere the darkness always seems to find youTormentors assult youThey try to convince you their poisonous words are trueThey fill you with hate
The Darkness of Night
By Ryan G.
Darkness had fallen, dressed in black
The army stood, no light
You often find yourself in a trance
Begging for another chance
She just wants you to go away
There is nothing more for her to say
You played with her heart
Right from the start
Nothing but torture and pain
Opportunity will pass you on by
As your life sadly slips away
You are just drowning in despair
Filled with darkness everyday
Frustration is mounting
As flames continue to burn
She may have passed on
Never forget what she meant to you
Forever was she your guiding light
And she never let you out of her sight
Very conscientious at what she did
Because, she always wanted the best for you
I found the feeling of love in a teenage boy, deep in his caramel eyes.
The warmth I felt when I stared kept me warm through those cold October nights
Still and silent
I float in the deep blue,
the ocean is my master
and I its slave.
Heels, check.
Face, check.
Glasses – better leave those here – check.
Tough love is on display
Because, the child has been led astray
Following the wrong crowd
And sadly, wasting her life away
Both parents are in a state of worry
They just want their child back
Upon a time it first was bornFrom a wedding reception box with wrapping tornLetting light fall upon the newlyweds' giftSoon began to move the infant child's fists A red, roman numeral clock
I had a friend named Fear
He was present in any social situation I faced
He quickened the beat of my heart, saying it was out of love and grace
She is sadly lost
And heading down a corruptive path
Messing around with the wrong crowd
She needs to find herself and come back
Darkness surrounds her incessantly
Family members are concerned for her safety
make me,
unmake me,
unwind me like ribbon,
bury me with all that has died before—
half decayed children and barely formed youths
all me,
all not
let petals suture
All that is left are memories
When a loved one sadly passes on
One never really gets over the loss
But, you must be strong
Never forget what your mother taught you
She always wanted you to do your best
In the dark I was lost.
In the dark who was I?
Hollow like an open shell.
Needy for a soul to cling to.
Then you whispered softly,
"I am who you seek."
Hands stretched wide you craddled me.
I know of a man who hunts his prey, silently. He wants to steal your dignity. Strip it from you like he owns it. Like he owns you. He knows what he wants and he isn’t afraid to take it away from you. He doesn’t ask.
When words are left unspoken
Hearts are often broken
You never made yourself clear
Nor, were you sincere
Nothing but a clouded mess
Along with strife and stress
You can no longer take a stand
Last year,
Long ago,
You would not recognize me
For who I am today.
I was a Royal Bitch,
I was a Demon in human skin,
Crawling and scratching and whining
My way
To the outside world.
It is quite sad
Nothing but darkness and pain
There was no love to be found
Everything has gone down the drain
That is the price you pay
When a loved one messes around with narcotics
I’ve heard, my dear, that you aren’t okay.
I’ve heard you crying, I’ve heard you say:
“I give up, I tell you. I surrender my soul.”
But I promise you that one day, you will be whole.
Since I was a little girl,
I dreamed of being a ballerina.
And now look at me:
Caught up in this twisted dance for fools.
I wished for nothing more than to have stage,
I signed my soul away with a 21st century John Hancock,
To get rid of stubborn, ages old writer’s block.
And now these trembling hands they do mock,
At my crooked fingers and smudged fingerprints they gawk.
This darkness of mine is not worthy of my home’s beauty
And you care not, for in you there is no darkness at all.
You know not of the rolling hills that I sat and longed for mutely.
Mysterious, Unusual, and Now Known.
T'was Dark and Morbid With No Mercy Shown.
Poor, Poor, Poe.
Found in A Gutter Outside A Bar.
Falling
Down, down
Reaching
Up, up
Trying to grasp onto a lifeline
To save me from the shadows lurking behind
Following me everywhere I go
Hiding in the depths of my mind
The sea is mighty and great
With tides threatening to consume everything
The air is misty with the ocean spray
And loud with the wave's roar
The sight is a beautiful one indeed
knee deep in your fire
and choking on ashes.
my words are spilling out -
i am spitting out grey smoke.
insides charred
from the pain you inflict,
black.
poisoned muzzle,
clenching jaw
The dark scenery
Is what will appear
You have nothing going for you
Do I make myself very clear?
You are asking for trouble
When you live in the streets
Uncertainty will surround you
Darkness
Darkness; continuous, deep, perpetual darkness.
Constant. Soulless. Empty dark space.
Crying
Without holding back the tears
Has become a habit for me.
Almost everyday,
I either watch something sad
Or think about something that saddens me.
But it always happens in the night,
My days sim a little dimmer than they use to be
The cold, dark clouds seek refuge in my heart
I ask why I even bother to get up
Because out of the darkness, there is in fact a light
That tunnel runs from me
One loving father is strong enough
to care for his hundred sons
zeal and enthusiasm are his weapons
to make their dreams come true
thunderstorm and typhoon don’t dare
repel him from his ultimate mission
They want to understand me.
They want to know how I work.
They want to cut me open and see my gears
Turning and turning.
They want me to tell all my secrets,
Tell my every thought,
Inhalation of disaster
time goes faster
Exhalation of the storm
boils the everbrooding thought
Using gifts to take in color
makes the blackness ever bright
in the light
in the dark
Darkness will surround you
If you are not careful with your path
Get it together
And take your life back
The streets are no place to live
For they are filled with confusion
People are often afraid of what is in the darkest of places,
but what if it's because that's where we hide our true faces?
It's not the us we want the world to know,
so we refuse to show
The streets are no place for anyone
For they are filled with trouble
Just pick yourself up
And move on the double
Situations are cloudy
Filled with corruption and strife
Remove yourself from darkness
His smile wasn’t always muddled in the shadows
Their hands clasping curls from his head smashing his body into the bus seat
He is strong; not a sound came from him and his tears were locked away
This world is contaminated by fools believing the shadows oppose the light
But would you even know brightness without the dark, or despair without joy?
Nighttime has always been a home for me.
I would linger in my thoughts late into the night,
having some time where everything felt possible.
Time where I was the only voice running through my head.
Again.
A scorching night of booze-inspired yells lingers in the air.
The Heat causes the mistakes to stick to the yellowed, resin walls and the sweat soaked sheets.
Short note: the following poem is in Villanelle style.
As words that infuse life into a dark place,
Poetry gave a face to the tangled mess in my mind,
As strokes on a page that probe a soul’s triumph and waste.
Her eyes remain glued to her scruffy shoes,
As she roams aimlessly around the streets of uptown Nairobi.
She wants to keep her eyes veered away from the world,
So nobody can see just how wet they are.
The words come from a dark place,
on a normal day they do not come.
The only place I can be is in darkness.
Why do words only come from my dark place?
Why can I not bring them from happiness?
The house, dark--locked doors
behind which secrets floated.
My emotions were like poison
to me and all others.
Weak, debased,
I turned to a place
where no one judged;
Compulsions undescribed
No outlet for emotions
A cage of my own making
But I forgot the door
Tick tock
Goes the clock
Ticking my thoughts away
Deeper and deeper inside my cage
The person who always looks happy
Is the one that gets hurt the most
The person who always care about others
Is the one that gets hurt the most
The person who always works hard
I am all drained out-
I am not afraid-of the Everlasting Darkness
There is no light
It is only he-
I wonder-have you come to understandwhy the world is silent at nightand what it means to be listeningto the darkness of the sky,to be hoping a star might whisper to youthe secret
I have felt the darkness
The kind that seeps into your mind when you're alone.
The kind that makes tears come to your eyes and sadness to your heart.
It's the kind of darkness that can really tear you apart.
I stepped off the plane into a new land, and new language, and new climate, and a new culture.
It was humid in Hanoi.
It was dirty. Dirt sat in the streets and people sat on the sidewalks.
To my nightly lover:
You are just a phase I grow out of in the morning
and the excuse i come crawling back to at night
I never needed a reason to dream
You rant to the sky and lay blame to the earth, for it's gravity is keeping you from flying.
As passionate as you are, your fire starts to die as the sunlight begins to fade.
Pain is surreal.
The awareness of what I’ve become is shocking, painful.
As I glance around, bodies twist and keel
Over
my shoulder, I see a brother in arms fall, eyes glassy, yet full.
Of love
I used to shine bright,
I was warm and comfortable.
I was hopeful.
I loved myself.
But over time I began to falter.
I slowly began to dim,
I began to turn to black.
Though I refrain a Frown
By the Darkness I'm found
Though I hide
The Pain Won't Subside
With nowhere to run
I fight an agonized cry
Until I have won
The structure is creaking from the wind drifting by
No one is home
No one’s alive
An overgrown garden entangled with vines
Reaching for something it will never find
Relief only comes during the late hours of sunset,
When the cool wind finally arrives
Just to curl around your legs,
Sighing with content, just feeling this moment of peace
Has vanished without a
trace, leaving me barren.
Mayhaps it found a better place,
Somebody who wants it.
I
Darkness
A never ending peace, an ever lasting impression.
People tend to think of creatures that are lurking, when in reality, you walk among those monsters everday.
Darkness envelopes within the soul.
Consuming first from the edges like a t-shirt stained with blood
We look into ourselves for hope
There is nothing but a dark path
When a person engages in substance abuse
Your world comes crashing down
There is sadly everything for you to lose
All hope will fade
Nothing ever seems right
Shadows are my friends,
Keeping me hidden from judging eyes.
Blanketing me with promise of safety,
And protection of hatred.
If I can't be seen by anybody,
Then I can't be hurt by them.
The darkness of this night envelopes me in its cruel hands
I'm swallowed in darkness - sinking into a black put that deflects light or even beauty
My heart is dashed into pieces
each becoming lost and forgotten.
I know that I know nothing,
Yet what do you know of me?
That I smile and laugh,
That I am truely happy?
I can see that you are hidding tears,
Right behind those smiles.
Fear, something everything is born with
It can’t be washed away or forgotten
Whether it be a child’s fear of monsters in the dark
There is someone inside my headIt is full of rage and carnage With claws as hard like leadMy mind just can't seem to manage It whis
I need your gentle fingers
To grace my skin
As your warm arms embrace me
And hold me together
I need your soft lips
To linger on each syllable
As your words
Talk my mind off a cliff
Addicted,I am to the pain,Feelings of loneliness surround me,Never leaving,Humble routine of this,I become even more lost without it,Happiness is a forgotten conclusion to a question I don't know,
It seems we are doomed to watch
the way mankind ravages itself, tearing and yanking
blowing holes in itself until
the Titanic could float better than it.
we see the
kidnappings and
rape
A knife
Is so innocent with the potential for so much harm.
So shiny, so pristine when maintained.
I’ve imagined those knives in the kitchen,
So sharp with their ebony handles,
Plunged into my chest
They have withered.
The crumbling giants,
With hats hung, hefty pockets, and
Swollen skulls—all teeth and
Smiles—weighing heavy on their
Sagging shoulders.
Pale, blind giants who shudder at
A midnight sky that dwells within is one without a moon or stars,
It knows no light.
So my dear don't dream of dark nights for it is only street lights that make the night more beautiful than daylight.
I’m surrounded by darkness,
No light to harness.
It suffocates me like a cave,
No oxygen for my lungs to save.
I claw, I cry, yearning for light
Every passing moment
Every click of the clock
Is another hour spent
Wiping the faces of mock
And when all is said and done
I see myself in the mirror
And realize with a stun
We live in a society of possessions, wants and needs flow into one as we cling to items claiming we have to have them to survive.
Black for her darkness hidden.
Blue for her not yet cried tears.
Green for her pain that is there but not found.
Pink for all her fake smiles.
Purple for the laughs that pains her but she tries.
A svelte owl,
on wing through this dark mooned night,
an ego ghost on the prowl,
to find what has been for his might.
.
Elusive moonlight,
scattered over frosty grass,
He walks like he has some place to be,
hurried footsteps resounding through the empty hallways.
He keeps his head down, watches his feet, as if that will save him from stumbling.
Alone I sit in the dark,
Cold, broken, torn apart.
Shackled to a wall of fears,
Tied down by my own tears.
My voice stuck deep in my throat,
I reach to grasps the words that choke,
Can you imagine what it would mean
Were I to follow you in the hunt?
Were I to put my hollow dreams
Out into the sun with a strong-willed punt.
In your colorful irises,
The universe resides…
This gigantic beauty that encapsulates our existence
That that gives us feelings of timidness and distance,
Is veiling its beauty with mystery
If you see me drown alone
See me standing on my own
In a world of complications
I have intricately sown
If you hear me in the night
Shedding tears over a loss
Caught in regrets
Pain, depressed
A Chaos, a mess
The sheer emptiness
The hurt and distress
It all makes the clicks
Enhance the sensation
Of deep nothingness
A glimpse of apathy,
Darkness
Is when all your senses
Are barred behind a high stone-walled mentality
Darkness
Is when your conscience
Is unaware of reality
Darkness
I am forever dark
Trapped in this horrible life,
Watching others at the park
As I’m stabbed with a knife.
No one knows the pain I’ve had
A heart can be corrupted,
Suffocating under the malicious hand of darkness,
Its armor chipped away piece by piece
By the thoughts that torment our souls,
Like a drug it takes you overAnd it never let's you goYou try n' get away from it, but it never gives you up
Killing me softly;with his heart;Killing me softly;from the start.Nothing can trap me in the dark;Though his wicked words pull me back in; time an time again.For he is the darkness;
I don't belong in heaven,
I'm not accepted in hell,
I'm neither angel, nor demon,
I don't belongin the human realm.
I have some power, and nothing to give.
I have a life, whith nothing for which to live.
You were thereMy beginningYou helped chase the shadowsTrustI gave it to you willinglyI give it you stillI will never regret itYou showed me powerA love I had never seenUndying
Lost in common misconceptions
and perceptions
From society's closed eyes
Searching for direction
In the darkness of deception
Deciphering the lies
With my mind's eye
Darkness.
It hits each one of us at a different time.
It is the moment we don’t feel even just a little bit alive.
Surrounding us as a cover and closing in so fast.
Please help me
And make these shadows leave
Save me from the darkest street
Turn the lights back on
And I'm crying
Then I'm broken
Shattered on the floor
The mirror hides unseen faces
The streets are no place for anyone
For there is nothing but trouble
People have become a shell
Life for them is pure hell
Days come and go
There sadly, is nothing but darkness
Everything is a mystery
"The shadows are long
The shadows are dark
They always lurk
They leave no mark
The shadows are big
The shadows are deep
The shadows fall
As the world sleeps
The shadows return
Memories can be good and badRemembering can be the worst partThe good memories, you'd want them to lastThe bad ones, you want to leave in the past They might even hurt you so you keep them a secretAs for the bad memories, you don't think you
What is depression?
It is a vile, insideous darkness that engulfs every aspect of a person.
If this darkness was a liquid, I would be drowning in it.
I have two stong, beautiful wings to fly away from it all,
I can’t live without her.
She is the one who has carried my compass to the top, and took my air at the floor.
She loves sad songs with happy melodies.
One mistake can suffocate
The tears I've wept
the nights I never slept
trying so hard not to be unkept
but all I do is cause a rause
I have this day of dark clouds
Tumultuous days gripping my life
Why does this happen to me?
All at once
Torn apart-
I’m in so much pain.
I ebb and flow
Melting into a pool of my own sorrow
I want to wallow away from these people.
It curls and snarls and breathes in my ear,
memories of darkness and grief reappear.
Closed are the curtains and closed are the shutters.
Midnight moves slowly and stands almost still.
With the darkness around me I am lost.
I am no longer near my home.
I hear the waves crashing against the shore just like the waves of my anxiety smothering any light left inside me.
I fell so contained by this darkness.
Laughter fills the room
but a place empty
No flowers were to bloom
Just a late night memory
They come and they go
The earth sprouts new life like love grows attachment and clings on tight.
Like a new-born bird taking flight for the first time, leaving the nest, taking chances.
What made her leave?
Was it the broken bottles
that collided with the broken bodies?
Was it the river that poured
not only pain,
but anger?
Or maybe it was the
faceless child
Suddenly these streets are looming with dark entities.A few of them are made of choices left undecided.Some of them are made out of sad unrealistic hopes.A great many of them though, are made out of memories.
My anger
a tsunami rushed straight to you
Love into hatred as I scream and cry
up to the sky you tore away a piece of me
as I begged you to let me go too
Does pain really cease?
Or is it a mere conformity?
Does darkness provide ease?
Or simply consume the light we no longer see?
The darkness
Surrounds me
knawing at me and
saying "come, come"
The hands
r e a c h
for me but I stand firm.
This will not happen
My thoughts circle
rapidly.
I find myself slowly creeping into darkness,
Like as a cloud hovering over a flower I cannot see.
I cannot see the light to what was always meant to be.
Without the sun, I don’t feel free.
Am not a heartless being.
It’s when the rose petals
Turn a careful violet shade
It’s when the sun sets
On the painting day has made
It’s when you have to turn
Clouds gather overhead
Making it hard to leave my bed.
Once there was light
But now only night
And tears that the skies shed.
They blanket the sky
Creating the lie
That there is no sun
I am the essence of hopelessness.
The girl labeled with a disorder I knew nothing about,
In only fifth grade, taking two different drugs.
But no one ever told me why.
Spring lives in many places
It lives in hearts, eyes, and minds.
One must know where to find spring.
If one looks close enough, she is anywhere.
I am light
Soft and beautful, resilient and bright
I am a guide through darkness an aid with no strite
I am neither her nor there,
but simply everywhere
Caught between the battle of wrong and right
The air is stiff, as if the wind is holding its breath,
and there is a coolness to the air, soothing, calming, peaceful.
The grass is soft from where I'm sitting,
as if inviting me to stay and enjoy the moment.
Once destined to be forgotten in darkness
To not recieve any sort of hope
But instead was abandoned by all
Until one day a miracle happened
A hand reached out to me
Seem to be white skies,but there is no light in my eyes. Maybe blank to you but i see cover of shawdow,there are no butterflies just vicious snakes in the meadows. Cold bodies and no coverups beneath the moon,no sun appearing anytime soon.
The world is dark.
The world is cruel
The world is careless
The world is bleak
Those very thoughts cross my mind daily.
Tick Tock the clock mocks straight from up ahead
As I lay, Time keeps pounding down upon my head.
My head lays heavy on the dark blue sheets of my bed
No matter what I do sleep is something that I dread.
Darkness, blackness, perfect light
Hiding is harder in the night
Running, gasping, try to breath
Close your eyes and count to three
Blinking, searching, trying to see
Is there a light left out there for me?
Please don't stop me, my love, let me lie down and kiss the ground,
let me taste the taste of freedom on my tongue and remember my
The night is when the darkness comes.
The guilty feelings,
the lonely ones,
the times you feel you are forgotten.
The good times seem to melt
into the dark, deep, depressing ones.
betrayal
and aching in your lungs
the last half-sip of wine
no u-turns
one
missing
stitch
bleeding ink on left hands
whys and what-ifs
alone at a table
As I lay in the darkness
My mind filled
With the pitch and silence
I think…
Why do I feel like this?
So comfortable
Encapsulated in an island of soot and ash, Shrouded in poisonous smoke, my eyes strain to see the star,
Blood is shed by the hands of men,
Deep scarlet runs through the streets.
When did this form of genocide began?
With blood, human hands are streaked.
It seems as if everyone has lost touch
Darkness engulfs,clouded by despair.Surrounding the peacefulness,eroding it from within.Discontent follows,maddened by grief.Unpleasantly distraught,lacking true desire.
i sleep with the moon, the moment
when the sun enters the sky.
there’s an ethereal beauty
to a blue canvas tinged with gray,
where the clouds
In the darkness you can see not a soul
see not a soul but your own
so there you are alone with familiar stranger
feeling like you're in danger
surrounded by who knows what
the mystery weighs way too much
"Pursue your dreams!" chippered voices encourage as mine pleads for guidance,
"Just do what you love."
Easier said than done in a restless world where every tune is heard except the one within.
I sit there and stare
Into nothing
I feel it slowly creeping closer
Darkness
I feel it slowly crawling up my feet
It enters through my open mouth
I try to scream as the icy pain strikes my heart
Alone
You think you are
But you're not.
While you're in that dark corner
Holding your legs that are folded to your chest
Staring into the darkness
Straining to see where your fear lies
Pink,
Fluffy,
Swirled world.
What shall we call this,
This creation?
A sunset.
It's wonderful,
Some could say,
Perfect.
Far from it dear,
if evil is a flame
then sometimes the world is on fire
burning with all the cruelty of man,
the passion of lusts, greeds, and desires.
If evil is a song,
Walk me through your mind,
I'll read what you are inside,
You'll be surprised at what I find,
You'll set your preconceptions aside.
I'll you what it means to be solitary,
What if i told you there is hope?
What if I told you there is an end?
Would you believe me?
There is darkness abound in these halls
Shadows, velvet black, form the surrounding walls
Light struggles vainly to pierce the ebon' folds
But the dark swallows all, in black- shrouded the fortress holds.
This is the scripture
Of the fallen souls,
Locked away in the chaotic darkness.
This is the story of
Wayward and Vagrant bodies,
I am the better side of darkness and the dim side of light.
I didn’t KNOW my blackened heart had a sense of what was right.
When you commit suicide you kill yourself
Others then die inside and are robbed of wealth
You are valuable to others more than you know
Suicide just let’s all your weaknesses show
The dark waters swirl around me,
Coming up higher with every passing thought.
Every single second of every day,
The water slowly rises.
So dark, like the night with no moon and no stars.
Surrounded by darkness
The light always burns at night
Gravel crunches underneath the tires as I pull up
I see him standing on the side of the house
Covered half by light and the other half
By darkness.
After the door shuts and the footsteps die,
I surf the darkness before my eyes.
The vast emptiness goes on and forever I see,
Nothing more then that of the darkness,
Cascading before me.
This sadness.
I feel my chest being crushed ever so slowly.
Pushing harder and slower. Farther and lower.
My heart throbs like a beating drum before battle.
Here am I, and here are we,
A there's no place I'd rather be,
For as the innocents of past
Would wish the rest of us would last
Yet come upon the midnight clear
I'm torn away from who I hold dear,
Take off the filters layered on a picture
and when wiped away all that barely remains
is the thin frame bruised by words,
and a cluttered dark mind that manages
to produces fields of wildflowers.
Echos of the night fade into the darkess that embrases my every move.
Surrounding me, the darkness fills my lungs like tar.
I am an animal of the darkness but I am alone.
DreamsOf regret and painRattle around in my head--Abandoned thoughts,And untouched memoriesooze from my sleep,And into my ear--Spilling onto my pillowand leaving a stain
Ode to Darkness
You have existed
since the beginning
of time
and for too many years
and to too many minds
have been
misunderstood
Soft words, sweet
Soft hands, warm
Leaves me giddy, breathless
Innocent and never knowing
loving, falling hard...
and you
ever knowing, sweet nothing
to you
I am nothing
Passion and love to the point of arrest
deliciosly improper thoughts
her mind is an aphrodisiac
Not going to let another day pass me byEven though my hair maybe a messAnd I'm not going to lieI don't always pass the test
But I'm going to let the world know that I'm flawless
A smile hinted at her lips
She watched her beloved from afar
He was in her thoughts, never ceasing
Should she dare be bold?
Should she let her secrets run free?
Yes, courage sweeps her away.
his blue eyes were full of lies
the way he held me was the way he had held many before me
the word he said dripped with venom
he was the snake himself
I walked right into his clutching trap
This heavy darkness encapsulates,
a blanket over the whole ocean,
a danger and a savior to bate
I'm not scared of relationships,
I want a relationship.
I want to hold someone's hand while they drive down an open road.
I want to kiss their forehead when they feel sick.
its hard letting go of something you've been struggling to hold onto.
especially when its hurt you more than it has helped you.
but it'll hit you one day when you're holding someone else's hand while they're driving,
when he spotted the abandoned clothesline he knew it would be
a safe place to hang his drenched fabrics to dry
(safety was always his priority; practical thinkers are
Why do you mask yourself in the darkness?
And dance in a masquerade of shadows?
When you know well dark shades can not cloud my vision
Why then would you make such a decision?
Me without a filter.Sad and cold as winterHappy seems so UnfamiliarThink my heart has died and witheredLast time I smiled, i was with her.And now she’s goneLeft me all aloneWhat did I do wrong?
I cut, I rip, I tear, I burn
The answers to questions
For which I still yearn
There is nothing left here
For me to fear
Except what is deep inside
this is a poem
poemmy poem if you will
it is a poem about poem
aw yeah poem
salamanders have
very high
iqs
and so do i
because I are be in ap class
As
I lie wide awake,
I pray to The Lord,
"Please, for my sake,
if the one I love does not love me back,
may your light shine on me before I attack;
myself."
“The family and friends of mine,
I dont love, I dont love...
Friends of mine don't show up all the time,
Still have me in their mind,
Borrow my pain, reimburse cheers,
Laying in bed
Wanting to be with my boo
Wishing I were dead
Because I cant live without you
Alone in the forest of the black gnarled trees
They beckon for me to join them in the dark.
No moon shines bright through where there should be leaves,
Just black, bare. branches and bark.
Rocky spine, left in the night
fragile skin that reflects the light.
Rocky spine, growing strong
marks that show what went wrong.
Rocky spine, with a smile so bright
eyes that sparkle in the night.
This present darkness is over whelming
Why can't my eyes open and let me see
This pressure on my heart won't set me free
But my soul can see the light, it's coming
Soon it is day and i can see shining
Drowning, drowning, drowning…
Please, someone save me…
But his voice is lost
In the suffocating dark recesses
Of loneliness.
I have no one.
Solitude envelopes him
In her arms,
Darkness consumes the world
Like black wings unfurled
The cold shroud wraps my heart
And aloof, I stand apart.
can you not see that
there is no happy
ending for people like
us
this only ends when
one of us is dead
and the other decides
to move on or
grieve eternally
I was in love. And you were too.we were together, through and through.but you left me alone, Stranded in an ocean of my tears.it was the end. Of me. Of you. Of us. Of who we were.
My mind is suspended in a void where light and dark are too crude a concept to bear. My dreams are vivid depictions of candles and circles of mortals who chant my name. I stand without form before them, reaching out to cut their throats.
On the outside, i am sweet
And on the inside i am obscene
Yet in my heart, I am confused
Because i doubt i am truly either
Either way i am lost
But my Shepard in the dark guides me
My hand
Reaches out
To try and
Destroy the darkness
And the distance between us
You are so close
Yet
You are so far
away
Please
Don't go
Away
HIs darkness is imprisoning him,
It's so bad that he can barely breathe.
It's becoming good company
And it scares me 'cause it's taking him
Farther and farther away from me
To cut, to release
The anger exploding out like a beast
From the pain my family inflicts
Becomes physical abrasions on my wrist
But my wrist alone does not suffer
My left arm now also encounters
Heart pounding, face flushed
a crushing headache bum-rushed
Breath ragged, star-crush
the holy theme of hush hush
Hearbreak can be a dark time
like night, and night is beautiful,
mysterious
and you can see the stars.
Heartbreak can be beautiful
with stronger connections to songs
or people or words
Little boy don't you see?
This life I live isn't made for you nor me.
For what I carry and for what I hold.
This fixture you have of me, isn't the truth of what I told.
Little boy don't you see?
Alone and isolated inside my head, I begin to wish that I was dead.
Fuck this life. I feel like I've already done this twice while overpaying the price. Well isn't this nice...
Your writhen thoughts had unexplainable august about them,
I wonder from what this could stem?
They have remarkable semblance to knotted fingers,
The way each twines into my mind and lingers,
Drawing me in,
Stands on edge of precipice,
Ebony abyss
Battle born, there has never
Been a war like this.
Criss-cross grooves from razor blades
Creeping up young arms
Voice in barren wilderness,
Oh! Bringer of water, thou hast lost me!
Why must I cry for help that fades
Into a deeper abyss I flee
I feel myself sinking into an abyss.
Help me.
An abyss that holds nothing but darkness in its frigid dead air.
Help me.
I try to climb out, I try to claw at the walls.
Help me.
This world is a place of darkness,
What was once wrong is now right.
People are cold and heartless.
Black lingers behind the brightest light.
Monsters don't even hide in the shadows,
Why do we wake up?
Humans are evil .
Humans are dumb.
Humans can think yes.
But only of what suits them best.
Humans walk beside the rest of us.
Forgetting they are the rest of us
Heavy
The weight impregnated the idea of perceiving the devastatingly beautiful ballast at eye level
The ponderous mass remained drooped to my side unmoving as Arthur's Excalibur
Hello darkness,
My old friend
I see you've
Found me again
But you don't
Scare me anymore
I can always
Find the stars
A world without it
Many lose it
Too much darkness
It's hard to find it
But it's stored in our dreams
It's hope in times like these
I know well enough
That I am not alone
But nevertheless my resolve is to never give up my secret
For if ever I did I would certainly be stoned
Or forced to pack up and leave their home
To show my own soul
Having your sun in scorpio
is like tripping down a long dark hole
but you like it
and you're proud of just how
stylishly you are falling
Underneath my left breast
carved into my ribs in powdered jet
8.11.14
the day the happiest man alive
killed himself
and we all found out
that he was pagliacci
La Commedia è finita!
Today I say good morning to the sun!
Usually it is the sun that wakes me up every single day.
But today is special...
At six a.m. it is I smiling down as the Sun
Stirred from his deep, deep slumber.
Darkness isn't always bad.
Darkness doesn't make you mad
Darkness isn't always wrong
It shouldn't be feared upon.
It is a normal phenomenon in our world
When the rest of the world seems like a movie reel
Spinning incessantly
Spitting useless nonsense
Faster than you can process,
But it's playing a beautiful picture
You've heard
Theres days when I fall and can't get back up
only to find a solution for me finding my balance again
I prayed that I was dreaming
When I saw that big wave
The water was not normal
But as dark as a cave
It was full of weird greens and reds and blacks
Golden days are full of bloom
But inside petals is dark
of gloom.
Beneath waxy leaves
are hidden shadow
Masters of Darkness.
Assassination specialists.
Asia's most feared Assassins.
Hiding their faces from society.
Flashing gems mount the noble crown
Dashing passions paint the milky gown
Pulsing plights sound within the hue-ringed hole
Convulsing fashions taint the beautiful soul
As I lay in the dark, I remenise about everything.
I ask myself questions that I never have the answers to.
I slowly lose myself in the darkness, I can no longer be seen.
I wanna commit suicide so I can go to heaven,
But killing is a sin, so
I might end up in hell.
The darkness is cloudy
Is this really me?
I’m alone and I don’t know what to do
The thoughts, they buzz like a bee
When darkness takes over,
Our nightmares come to life.
Who's time will end next?
A mere roll of the dice.
Fate is a religion for those who hate chance.
But be it random or precise,
Brain crackling like electricity touched it.
Sharp taps at the back of the skull as if it hit cement.
Chest tightening, heart missing, one large gaping hole, no lungs for a single breath.
Bloody fingers.
Thoughts, feelings, ideas do not matter here
In this prison one may call home
For me it would be a crime to go against her
Her wrath is too fierce, too strong, too sharp
Size of the body does not matter
Walking down the street with tear in my eyes and you still have words to say to me?
My head in the ground, dirt in my face and your still kicking me?
There is a voice that calls in the darkness.
They say he walked the wilderness
With naught but the clothes on his back.
They say he cried out for days on end
About the coming of the light we lack.
The devil is chasing me
Always has been
Since the day I was conceived
He tries to make me give in
Though there're many enticements
And many temptations
I wear black,
and cover my eyes.
I hide my scars,
and hold in my tears.
I hide my face
from everybody i know.
But when it shows,
my smile is fake.
I'm good at hiding my pain.
There are such lines to which I am confined.
They are invisible, yet tangible.
Strong, yet changeable.
These lines are here to limit:
To show the traits I truly exhibit.
In the overshadowing darkness
where despair takes life
and hope is nothing but a word.
Where faith has no meaning
and trust has fallen to sorrow.
In the consuming darkness
Most of the time
We try to look at someone else's eye's
Try to understand through their covered lies
But what we do not realize
Viens throb from shameless drugs that mezmorize
When their mama cries
There was once a time of sorrow.
She had a lot of fears.
Life was hell,
and a constant reminder of the cause of her tears.
Nights were particularly bad,
the darkness surrounded,
Laughter
Joyous Laughter
Laughter that can be enjoyed by everyone
Laughter that can make you laugh
Laughter that can make you feel included
A drunk
Once upon a time a little girl lay on the floor on her room,
Curled up in a blanket and wondering when mommy would be home,
Racing through the paths of your own mind.Sometimes it's scary to explore your entire self.You're surprised to find what's hidden back there.The monsters, the ghouls, remind you of who you truly are.
We live today in eternal suffering
A consistent sadness during a persistent night.
Eradicating our hopes and dreams,
Filling our hearts with sadness.
Murder of dreams,
The night falls upon us
My hands warp and writhe
Fabricated conspiricies consume my mind
Sinister notions deafen my perceptions
What lurks in the corner what will i find?
Misfortune haunts my core
It is something that i adore
The shadows are growing faces
And the voices growing names
My mind is having a party
And playing twisted little games
The music is growing louder
With warping melodies
I walk out into nothing but fog
The darkness surrounding me
I hear a noise coming from behind me
I see nothing but a silhouette.
It is my depression
He is here to take me under
There is no return
You broke my heart when you sai goodbye
You made me cutt and want to die
You told me you love me and that you cared
You even got me a cute teady bear
I gave you my heart
And you tore it apart
i look at this blank page; or
I I try to see bend the words
Flowing from my own pen
I look and I won't see the the truth in the words I write-
I will look and I won't see that my mind is in a fight
AS darkness takes over
my plea is to be free,
but all it does
is take over me.
I hope for a candle,
but no, it's to bright.
so instead,
I search for the right.
You are in my darkness,
Everyday I wonder why
Everyday I look into your eyes
I see what I don't want to be
Everyday I picture a dream in my head
One so profound I feel as if it can never be crushed
So many thoughts running through her mind...
So many questions, assumptions of why all of this happened
Her heart can only take so much pain, yet she doesn’t understand why she can kill it already.
There were so many sleepless nights,
days where you'd lie in bed, and hardly even bother to see the light.
You couldn't find a reason, but you were just broken.
Darkness consumes me. My surroundings slowly seep into my body. I have no control over my body. I try to move but something has tied me down. All I can feel is the tears that roll down my face.
The world around me
it's as if it was a world of darkness
but in reality all that is around me is light
Everyone is laughing
havng a good time.
As I sit here
wondering if the sun
A stranger...
A feeling...
True or not
Days, Months, Years...
Friends, Best friends, lovers...
One day, eyes are on her
Slowly Slowly dissapear infront...
of my eyes...
What you see is only one side of me.
The outside seems to be full of glee
But the inside is completely different
That I can guarentee.
Worries, Worries, Worries
Fill my head in sequential flurries.
I’m wrapped up tight within my sheets
Behind my curtains blows a gust
Up and down the lonely streets
Calm my heart, this I must
As the shadows find me still
In gentle dreams can I trust?
Screaming inside, no one can hear it,
I know when I die, I'll be a sad spirit.
Concealed with pain, I lock myself in,
Night after night,
into the miserable hours
of another weary morning,
I waste my time
lying restlessly
in a bed too familiar.
Tiny branches of red
Daisies are a friendly flower,
Kathleen Kelly had it right
They bring a cheer to any room
They bring a certain light
I wish I had some daisies here
As I sit in the near-dark
Green and white clothes
with a hat just too big,
tiny yellow shoes
waiting for the day.
You are a star.
Not a bright, burning ball of gas somewhere so far away in the atmosphere that we can only see a small speck.
Not an actor, or singer, or dancer, or some other famous person that is famous only for being famous.
If I was not alone, how joyous I would be,
The smiles upon their faces no longer a mystery.
I surrounds myself with hundreds, even thousands of my
Friends.
When I’m on the white sand shore
in the world of my muse,
I could swear that it is during the death of night
that the world is most alive.
Fear storms through the dark endless skies
Where it seems that land can only exist at night
Where thugs rule the world and parents hide behind doors
Hypocritically stating,"the world is yours"
I lurk in the darkI am your fear, your regret, your worryActing like a judgemental jury
I slink around in the pits of your heartGnawing on your soulMaking you pay your toll
When life gets difficult,
And your cup over flows,
Things go haywire,
Objects explode,
Theres no air,
No air,
No air you cant breathe,
Your brain cant conceive,
Wrong,
Wrong,
“Depression”
I’m tired of wearing the painted grin
That mocks me and all of my sin.
The pain of my soul and my mind
You say that I've changed
but you're the reason i'm so cold.
Get out of my head,
the fights quickly get old.
You've made me so heartless
something I knew nothing of.
Once you broke my heart,
The quiet darkness that
slipped in through the tiniest
slits and sat
growing and festering,
Has all but swallowed me whole.
Thick black curtains sequestering
the light with in my soul.
Such a beautiful soul
Flying free
Soaring over mountains
Limitless as can be
No one can bring her down
Such a beautiful soul
Flying free
Soaring over mountains
Limitless as can be
No one can bring her down
Marked by shades
Chained by judgment
Being blinded by false imagery
Colors of white to dark
Long plagued our kind
A savage beast it is,
Crawling through the darkest realms
This heart is an abyss,
Disguised by rotting, barren elms
Tear through broken glass,
You've nothing to behold
I dream in black and whiteI bleed the color of your eyes
All I can see is your lipsGently glazing over mine
As the sun setI saw my rose petals in the flame
A Shadow among the Darkness
Lingering among wood, hear his footsteps move the earth
Tranquil in sound, with transitioning beauty within the nothing
Black light swirls over the endless night
There is a fire
that wells
inside of my stomach
A raging flame
slowly burning every inch
of my flesh
as darkness settles over
inching
creeping
After the darkness cleared from my head
And all of the words that he said disappeared
I took one good hard look at myself
and realized I was happy
And all these little things
They build up inside
Turning your light into dark
They rupture the protective wall
That we think saves us from all the hurtful things
The throbbing pulse of the silenceMade immune to the deadening enclave of walls of stoneIn this captivity, but one soul exists And calls this asylum her homeOne lives and soundlessly breathes here
He held her hand in his
bone achingly tight;
his jaw clenched with bravado
while his legs shook in fright.
She was cold to the touch,
itsy bitsy chills;
eyes bright with life,
drifting through time
with no one to be
why cant anybody see me?
i do my best
for all to see
but no one
notices me
im in all the plays
and all the pictures
Darkness is a fellow who doesn't believe in light
They've never met, he claims
He stares at me with eyes I can't see
As if he is deranged
After a time, he is so tired and dismayed
The Dark that cones, the dark that rises. The darkness that is the light, in all my wrong doing. If you protect me from myself, your protecting me from THE DARKNESS.
I need faith,
for i am faithless,
the demons in my dreams.
the darkness in my heart,
there is no light in my heart.
what i don't understand,
Love you "say" but its not true.
Its just another word for "forget you"
Told me you love me, told me you cared. But why arent you standing here?
You made it up didnt you? just to fill in the blank.
A sadness so deep
A darkness so sad
nothing, no one, anyone
you can never
you will never
Touch your knees with your nose
Hide, from it all
World fading
My stomach growls and hisses
Each breath I take angers the pits of my belly
My intestines secretes restlessly its enzymes
Urging me to feed.
The beaten path that lays before me
Darkness
noun
The partial or total absence of light
Cloaked by shadows,Enshrouded in mystery,You stalk through the night. The book is open,The fate unwritten,You search for what is right.
God’s tears rain from the heavens as the innocent confess
Others are surrounded by the Devil’s hatred
Blanketing them in villainous greed
A tyranny that little can escape
It is a circle
Big and wide as the sun.
But for me,
Its a strand
A strand I'm loosing my grip on.
Slowly I slip
I can't regain my grip
I fall,
And suddely,
How does he construe these thoughts
that make him act in heinous ways
Ways that few would dare to dream
for the fear of dark reality
How does he acquire his weapons
of greif and pain and evil
'Where are you?', is what he called. The sweet childs sing-song voice called over the cloud of darkness. 'Where are you?', he calls again...giggling shortly after.
Hands grasp at nothingness
Alone in the dark
The light is far ahead
This is no tunnel
Only sky
And here we fall
People in the distance
They swarm away
The cold harsh wind blows on your face,
Splashing on puddles.
Covering your face and letting the rain mix in with your tears.
You’re running to get away; you’re running to be free.
It was dark, by my eyes and by my mind.
I stared blankly forward,
trying to gather my bearings that were scattered beyond my sight.
My head felt two tons heavy and my arms felt two pounds light.
My insecurities has taken Over all things me I can feel the change in my mind the hurt in my heart I no longer believe the words that are said I'm dead In the inside with no hopes of coming back you have broke me down to my last there is nothing
Life is a shadowShifting, shaping, twistingInto braided ropesThat wrap around the throat andTugBending over window ledgesCurling into gnarled talons that
Grasp at your heart to
Darkness, surreal, creeping up inside me,
How do I fight this, this monster that is me?
I long to be good, to be free, to be anything
that is not what I am.
The darkness and light struggles within,Can't imagine where to begin.Seeing through clouds of darkness and dispare,One wonders what to do from there.Bright eyes pierce the soft soul,
At a crossroads we stand,
Our heels in the sand,
A decision weighs heavily,
On our soon-reborn band.
Forced to be bruised by rough dry earth.
Forced to be touched by the whiskey breath.
Forced to be laid down on dirty sheets.
Forced to live in fear of another's touch.
Forced to carry life within womb.
I breathe better through a blanket
Let it circulate the air I take in
Let it suffocate me if in the end I’m pure
I rub its softness against my cheek
I'm piecing a puzzle, but i cant seem to finish it.
I mean, its finished, but its not;
its all there, yet something's missing;
like, the correct complete puzzle, but somehow the pieces don't fit.
Back into the abyss I flow,
Back into the abyss I know,
Back into the abyss I go,
Where I won't be missed,
I am the mist.
You never understand it
Even as you feel it
It's your saving grace
And your damnation to hell
The light in the darkness
And the darkness itself
Consuming you
Trapping you
She cries into the nightAs she heads for the skyHer face is full of PainShe has nothing to gain. She cries herself to sleep
Did you come across the weary hunter?
Seemingly harmless hungers in silence.
But just who is this weary hunter?
Unsatisfied, unstoppable, and intangible
The darkness will rise,
The moon will shine,
And take souls as a prize,
While the creatures moan and whine.
The morose skies,
The dreadful evils,
The hopeless cries,
I remember sititng, head against the silver wall.
The engine roared, trembling the floor I slouched on.
It sounded like some sort of wild beast.
Looking out the open door across from me
Three broken hearts all in one day,
But my love for you still stays.
We are silenced in the depths of darkness.
I pray that someday the barrier will be broken
For us to be away from the farthest of fears,
Creeping from the depths of its evil thrown,
A disease, uncontrolled,
Leaving its victims all alone,
Never sleeping,
Hears the weeping,
Of those he mangles in a dark unknown.
In Evils Reign
In the darkest hour,
Evil peers from his tower,
Looking for his prey
That he will conquer today.
His breath stinks of sour
Souls that he will devour,
A faceless demon made
I listened to an old song.
It’s been five years passed…
It took me back
to when I was only 13.
For being so young, I was so haunted.
The world was black and white.
I lived in Arizona
but even the rays of lightcouldn’t
penetrate my dark cloud.
I l
She's broken inside
with nowhere to hide,
yet she has everything in the world.
She's got family and friends
and the spoiling never ends.
But what she wants
is just a connection.
Where is he?
No matter how much I express myself
and people sympathize to understand,
there's still that part of me that's
never really known.
All alone.
It craves to have light shed upon it,
Life.
It's a journey.
Journey.
It's made worthwhile by love.
Love.
It began with a friendship.
Friendship.
It's a strong bond.
Bond.
Time together that you enjoy.
Enjoy.
There she goes, falling
Down into the unconquerable abyss
Lost inside herself
There’s no escaping
The terrible monsters that live in her soul
They lurk in the looming blackness
I believe in harsh standards
I believe that all females should look the same.
Females should not have hips
Female's ribs should be exposed.
If females are as thin as a rail,
They are the ones I display.
Its dark, its cold, theres no way out
every space of light seems to be occupied by its own form of witchcraft
I walk on this world with no stablilized path
the lukewarm presense of the present life
Walls are fallen
Words come alive
Memories are seen
History is broken
Future is forgotten
Emotions are meaningless
I struggled against my restraints
I was forced here,
into a cage
I wasn't meant to be locked away
I have things to do,
Places to see,
People to meet
You sit behind me in the midnight sun
Urging me forward toward the edge
Always there my dark twin
You are the sin to my light
It takes everthing to fight the pull
Oh how sweet it would be
Nine Ways of Looking at Darkness
-Based off of Wallace Stevens’ poem ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’
1
Among the darkness
A single light
Shines through the night
2
Maybe She Would Be Alive Today. If I Spoke Up And Said What I Needed To Say. If I Thought Differently and Choose A Different Path. Crazy Thing Is I Didn’t Think She Would Last.
Strained thoughts fly through my mind
Like cracks in the pavement.
Each line deliberate and
Jagged.
I stare at my hands that are
Holding a pair of scissors.
I turn to face the mirror.
Butterflies
In the Night
Drift Away
Without a Fight
Lose Myself
Lost in You
Wondering why
But Such a Pretty View
No more sadness
No more pain?
Watch That Blood
What is day
When all you know is night
Shadows are invisible
darkness becomes light
My eyes need not adjust
This state will never change
There's always 5 months of midnight
I sat in a dark cold room
Surrounded by my friends.
My feet shivered on the cold stone floor,
And fear filled the air.
I wanted to know why
In the dark of the night
I face my window with open eyes
I hesitate to bring back happy thoughts
Despite being trapped where the fear lies
My memories bring neither peace nor comfort
The darkness doesn't always mean evil,
Just like the light does not always mean good.
Thinking for yourself isn't always a bad thing.
Right and wrong is an opinion.
Decisions blind.
Outcome unpredictable.
You’ve looped yourself around me
You’ve laced yourself through me
You’ve tied your knot inside me
You’re tangled up about me
You refuse to let me go.
Maroon- the color of crimson love, fermented
Of December midnights, mingled with the tears of flesh
Of sweet agony, smoldering behind hazel eyes
Of you and I, trying to escape Desire
Darkness.
I fancy myself as one who knows darkness.
Not that darkness is something wonderful to know,
In fact, it comes like a thief in the night and steals.
Voices haunt my sleep.
Soaring shadows awaken
my soul. Falling far,
far, far down into the depths
of ruins and caves you left
empty for my arrival.
It's a dark corner subdued in my head
Alwasy telling me to put myself to bed
It's like a sky with many black holes
Endlessly counting the many souls they stole
A sense of direction lost within time
Darkness is a cloak of shelter.
Ending the day's noise,
And so forth the day's chapter.
Darkness is everywhere,
Whether it's a shadow,
Or a feeling you can't share, nor bear.
My life is a lie.
Every day is a challenge
As I put on a show for those closest to me.
I was taught that these feelings inside me are wrong.
When someone asks
"Are you gay?"
When someone says
"You look lik a guy."
When someone knows the truth
they know me by no lies
they just dont know it all
the real alswers to their questions
Subconsciously I feel like I'm being wrapped in my own blanket, being protected by my own mind.
Something about the darkness of a room gives me chills, I love not knowing what's on the other side.
Alone and cold,
it grows so old.
Scared to leave,
nothing to achieve.
The rose wilts,
the scale tilts.
Loves dies,
hate flies.
Passion gone,
nothing to pawn.
The black swallows me,
I creep forward, advancing toward the dark hand that beacons me
It motions for my advancement, yet my instinct restrains the movement of my feet
Tugging and yanking at my weak knees, the hand forces me onward
Scared?
Frightened?
I used to be all those things until, I met silence. It welcomed me with a cold hug.
I hated it.
No, I wasn't mute, and never will be, sadly.
But sometimes I wished I could be mute.
The mask I wear.
The whispered dreams at night.
The long scars and small tears.
The shadow hidden and out of sight.
What I am on the outside, middle, inside,
Which one is real, which do I hide?
I search for you.
Stumbling, crawling, in the unforgiving dark,
With no map, no light to guide me home,
I am simply a fool refusing to admit she’s alone,
Eventually I stop and just sit,
The petals fall off the flower
And drop slowly toward the floor
Each second between the petals
I spend inching towards the door
For, I just can’t wait to leave
Though I wish that I could stay
When will the darkness end?
Will morning ever come?
Will I always have to pretend?
Or will the mask be broken by some?
The smile on my face,
Is almost never real,
I put it there to hide,
Into the darkness, I reach out a hand,
where shadows play and light is banned.
My breathes decline and I gasp for air,
this has become a deadly game of truth or dare.
Do I dare to escape from this place,
Here and there you disappear,
an aparition in the dark.
Fading into the past: mistakes.
You're not what I imagined.
In three thousand feet deep, I search...
For what, I'm not aware.
I floated out in spaceAnd collected the starsPouring the Milky WayInto many, many jars
I came back onto EarthWith the beautiful silver stuffPut them carefully in my roomI thought it was enough
At first, it was disconcerting;
The feeling of being unable to rest.
Now,
I am comforted by it.
My mind, it never sleeps--
Never quiets--
Never stops--
Never dies.
I can feel it;
Men or Women
Have the power to kill.
Though we blame objects
Like guns, knifes, swords, etc.
Why are we blaming these objects
When we should be the one to blame
The people that hold the gun,
Somewhere, over the monochromatic archAcross the skyThe shadows of twisted figures against the sunWrithe and shriek A daunting vision brings forthAn unsettling fearThe cries shake the earthAs the shadows grow The horizon begins to burnA blinding
I watch, as the world keeps moving,
Unable to move with it,
Forced to stay in the dark, unwanted, and unearned,
No light, no warmth, no hope,
Your goodness reflected in my eyes
When you began to rise
Soul reflected across the sky
I knew there my heart would lie.
Beautiful yellow and blue colors,
Warming me like electric covers.
I can see, but I am blind.
I can hear, though I am deaf.
I can speak, yet I am mute.
I find myself wandering, like a spirit,
Walking the same path over.
I cannot tell if a dream has taken me
I sit here wondering where I'll be.
In this darkness I sit and wonder.
Where is my hero?
I have to be my own hero.
My own hero.
I have to save myself.
I am the one who holds the key to happiness.
A broken heart is like a broken dreamA wold left cold as stoneA place of darkness never to be seenI see you walk away as tears fill my eyesThis is a world where love can never survive
I've never felt more alone than I do now.
Years and years have gone by,
But it has only been now that
I feel empty in a crowded room.
I feel that I'm drowning in the middle of the sea.
Our World... Rapacity!
Where Men usurp the youth.
Men who manifest greed, lust, power
Illimiuniting Freud's Id through actions
Alas! The youth replicate their Teachers.
Cloned as the Men
From as far
well as far as I can remember
From the cold fronts of December
to the hot summers of July in everything
I've done it was to prove that I could do
anything as long as try,
Based off of: "Hedge, that divides the lovely" by Torquato Tasso
Darkness, that covers the wonderful
Valley, and this half from being a whole,
Never in you appear such a welcoming face
A small girl sits waiting for someone, something, anything
That can save her from the ever present Darkness closing in and
Suffocating the life out of her already shattered and crumbling soul.
Dig away from all the dissappointment
I get lonley in caves all by myself.
Thoughts lose everything all in the moment,
Scraping nails upon walls, all blood runs high.
Today
We Fly.
Today
We Cry.
Today
We Sigh.
Today
We Lie.
Today
We Deny.
Today...
We Die.
(Written in Trochaic Monometer)
She steps inside
a world unkown.
The place is dark
and stars don't glow.
She starts to cry--
she wonders why--
she thinks she cannot
be fulfilled
with just her dreams.
At the crossroads darkness fell
Benighted from the shades arose terror.
Water bled obsydian, black
From shadows opened the mouth of hell.
Despair, hatred, grief and their reek,
With you? The monsters don't seem so scary.
And life? Not so tough.
You are the sunshine to my darkness.
You keep me safe beside you.
Each day is just a gift,
That's why we call it present,
That's why each day we smile,
And think things are so pleasant.
But deep beneath the surface,
Lies all the living secrets,
They didn't give me a stone
(I didn't want one)
They didn't mark my grave
No name remembered
But that's okay
I wanted this
To be forgotten
Ashes scattered to the wind.
No name left
When I close my eyes all I can see is your face wanting to get me.
That's why I write
When I go to lay in bed at night all I can feel is your hands on me.
That's why I write
I am like the dark.
A vast, intricate enigma.
Everybody can see that I’m there.
Some people choose to embrace me. I do not seek, but lie in wait.
Few people can understand some of me, some of what I hold.
“Can you feel it?
The madness slowly going
up your spinal cord.
The black ooze mixing with your
neurons to create something new.
Something different. Something
dangerous. You can feel can’t you.
Bound by silence, my mind a cell.
Blinded, deafened- can't hear the bell.
The bell that sounds freedom to speak
My blinded eyes struggle to peak
Into the land of harmony-
A place where darkness cannot be.
Here I lay,
covered by blankets and darkness.
Or more should I say,
the shadow of thankless and heartless.
The person who I thought should be there
seems like to be the one without care.
Writing lights the path of ever darkness
A darkness that consumes all emotions
Feeling has ceased, sight has ceased, taste has ceased
Senses taken over by the evil
A beast that knows absolute no loving
-You lie through your teeth
When it comes to how-are-you’s
“I’m good” or “I’m okay,”
Is what you’d instead say
-Feeling lonely day by day
Not that you weren’t alone in the first place
As the sunlight slips between my fingertipsI watch the shadows fallThey fall in lacy breaths over my skin,Making darkness and light seem so intricate
Miles away apart from grace,
I need your love to guide me through; where no fear is ever known.
Though seclude, I feel right at home.
Late at night, like my overseer I feel you watching my every move.
The kindness in the smile of a little girl.
Fearless and free...the world not yet clawing away her freedom to love,
sees through eyes as clear as the sea with an embrace as warm as the sun.
When born God gave children a precious gift, <br> Through open eyes a new world floods within. <br> When sunrise is near our light starts to lift, <br> But darkness is my eyes, my own vile sin.
Based off of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
Day’s first rise is bright
Her bleakest tinge to light
Her early beams aglow
True beauty showing so slow
Then magic disappears
I felt different as if somehow I seemed to glisten. The air was cold but I was warm. I was a light in the darkness. My eyes were closed, but i refused to open them. I was alone but I didn't feel alone. Everything felt perfect.
Sinner are lairs who sweetly
Roll a golden red apple into the world.
Like bombs they go off boom boom
mind is on hold
heart is in fast-forward
words were once all I needed to hear
now I need a proclamation
a declaration from you to me
make me your everything
desire at will
your power, your love
There is a dark place where nightmares slitherA place where sickness has no cureA place where the depths of hell shall riseA place where flames consume every ocean and river
Where in these dark caverns I lie alone,
Hidden without the wakefulness pure bright
In the shadows, I silently atone,
Awaiting the purge of the searing light;
But doubtly I conceal thyself of night
You’re my Marlboro Red in the dead of night
A single amber glow amid the choking blackness
But oh how you will never understand
the way your embers light up my soul
Scorching me black from inside out
anger with frustration
is a nasty combination
with a little confusion
and you mind will cave in
head simply spinning
can't concentrate
forget the date
and run in hell's direction
I let them drag me down
I was a mess
I was so far underground
Trapped in darkness
They kicked me around
Laughed through their teeth
Kicked again when I was down
See the masked skeletons of undead slaves march
varnished spirits welded together by the sins of their past
through the smog they trudge
Somewhere inside me
There is a force
Trying to pull me into
The Abyss of Darkness
It is lurking
Just on the edge
Of my consciousness
No matter how much I try
It won’t go away
Shattered hearts and
Broken dreams
Call to me in the weary night
Silent screams and
Fallen dreams
I can't reach them.
No way out
No where to run
Hold on to your sanity
She stares in darkness
her smile twisted
her eyes blackened
Who is this demon?
Tears of blood fall
she screams in pain
oh God, my sweet God
Where are you now?
Kiss my stained lips
i take a trip to the beach at nightlet the sand pinch my toes and when the wind blows i get criticized for low eyes,
I step away, As he slowly approaches, Hidden out of his sight. Evil he has come to do… But I must do right. I will just wait here, If he does not see me first, My heart is beating, I’m about to burst!
I step away,
As he slowly approaches,
Hidden out of his sight.
Evil he has come to do…
But I must do right.
I will just wait here,
If he does not see me first,
My heart is beating,
My mind is a prison
The prisoner locked inside the cell
is me
Why you may ask
because i can't gain control
so i lose it every time
and when the control is lost
the pain takes over
Here me here me ole trouble one
Thrill and passion is what you desire,
And your wants unquenchable as fire.
Allow me to give you what you seek
For it is from your heart I do speak.
I tooke a pth most wouldn't
its calm and familiar to me
although most would disagree
many can't handle the path i take in life
filled with darkness but light all around
Here I sit, ah this black chalice
so alone, and silence embracing my
every thought,every emotion.
When darkness falls he raises his head.
He's free, not a servant of the light.
He ventures to paths no-one has tread,
Keeping the night obscure and bright.
Is there a reason for irony such as this?
what if God took away the moon?will we ever see the night sky the same or different?if so, what would be the difference?will the dark side of the earth be ever luminated naturally at night?would we be more dependable on light to bright the night?
Late at nightVodka on my breathCan't sleep, can't escapeNeed to get awayShadows in my mindShowing under my eyesWill to live fadesWith the light of the dayStruggling to breathe
The sun sleeps
And grey weaved
Cotton balls envelope
The moons shine
Glimmers of eyes peak through
And smiles streak the sky
Everything is dueling under
A black cloak
When lust is greater than love
When hurt is too much to heal
It’s hard to stay in love,
When there’s nothing left to feel.
When the pain of holding on
Defeats the fear of letting go
I paid for my sins with a couple our fathers
Five Hail Mary’s and I didn’t even bother
Wrapping up the prayer coz I didn’t see the point
Church congregation I reluctantly joined
Into the den of the wicked blackbird
and past my less fortunate peers,
I arrived in an orchard humming with growth
and the beauty I no longer possessed.
Of the darkness
emerging from
our souls, beyond
threshold of
the black mire
falling
headfirst
into the pits
dying, our souls
The words float in my mind
Like a river trickling by
Whispers in my ear
Here and then gone
Terror and fright consume me:
Light leaves and dark trails behind me.
I am forever alone with no one near or close,
In this secluded island, I stand morose.
When I first met you,
flowers started blooming
in my darkest spots.
All because of you,
I know I have a light
And it shines for you alone.
And I thank you
For your time
and your kindness.
I was a Stopper, a panic, a coil,
Watching. With Awe. as my life would spoil
Away with fear as I lay in my slumber.
Falsely believing my days were numbered.
What makes the hair on your arms rise,
your palms sweat,
the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?
Is it the dark?
A fleeting memory of a bed ime story,
Amongst the darkness of the world,
Poverty and the poor,
Children of very young mothers,
Abandoned children of fathers,
Deaths of loved ones that come and go,
Even abortion agreed upon by scared young girls,
Immortal souls don't last forever.
They are taken by greed.
Frozen in time and space.
Never changing.
Ceasing to live.
Sadness floats around me
Hovering
Always with me.
Like mist,
It creeps over me
Settles down and suffocates me.
The fog of depression hides the sight of happiness.
The shadows are dark,
I'm living in a world so bleak and cold
No warning of hurt
Protect yourself because nobody else will
Hold on tight
It's going on to be a long fight
Filled with mysteries
Yes, that we are
I'm living in a world so bleak and cold
No warning of hurt
Protect yourself because nobody else will
Hold on tight
It's going on to be a long fight
Filled with mysteries
Yes, that we are
Everything is so screwed up...
but, my mind's made up.
You're not real.
I'm callin' demons a disease but I know one when I see one.
I had one. It filled me.
I possessed one. It killed me.
They scatter stars
And take all light from laughter.
Across the skies they turn
summer's soft blues
Into stormy grays.
They delight in
All that is tainted with sin.
darkness the scary and dark place
being afraid of something that's not there
it may be concealed in the blanket of night
doesnt mean its bad
Numb is
always my
emotion
I've become
so bland
nothing
effects me
anymore
I only cry
to know
I'm still
alive and
because I
know they're
right.
When I was young, I saw the world
Through glasses lined with
sparkling pearls.
Shaded blush and tinted rose,
Where everything was good as
gold.
But later when it faded light,
It feels like I'm chasing my own shadow,
Never quite catching the phantom.
Walking, Running, Sprinting.
The spectra inches from my hand.
But I'm never fast enough.
Get away from me.
I don't want you to visit again.
Last time nearly killed me.
The pain; the crying.
The worthlessness.
I have no strength to continue.
Alone at the piano,
Tears track my face,
As my fingers a melody trace
In the dark.
Light
That is all I ever asked
The stars are receding
And I have failed my task
I wonder
I wonder
What did I fail to do?
Twilight engulfs me.
I lose myself within its shadows.
I no longer exist.
I am part of the faceless dark.
I hate the night.
A dark hole called home, but it's not even mine.
Not living only existing, no hope, no worth, dealing with what I've been dealt.
Keep it all inside, the words inside my mouth. We'll all be the same, lying in the dirt.
I've wandered into the morbid side of life and I don't plan on coming back.
You can chase me all you want, but you'll just get hurt in this dark place.
It kills anything positive.
But I don't have to worry,
All of the pain comes flooding back
As my memories attack
Angry tears fall from my eyes
As I hear your distant cries
I’ve been broken down and restored
Set back
Been attacked since the day I was conceived inside my mother’s womb
Attacked by gallons of liquor bottles,
Making me kick within my mother’s belly,
Dark is my soul.
Cold is my heart.
I built up these walls to shut everyone out.
Not for myself, but for everyone else.
I’ve done terrible things in the past,
And more will be done, I am sure,
Beneath the moonlight
I make my way,
Clearing out the fog
From the glare of day.
The darkness tempts
But does not take.
She dances to me,
But does not seduce.
I do not deny her,
What is a best friend?, I ask
I can sit and ponder all day,
But I can't pretend the thought doesn't last,
Someone I can confide in, lean on, laugh, and cry,
It's something, a feeling, that most people would die
That lonely black house on top of that hill
Away from the white houses…
It separates from the world…
That white room inside that black house
All the way deep end of the hall…
I’m in the dark
Loneliness trickling over me like dripping pipes
Hope has ran away
So far away that I cannot breath
When I reach out
I expect to find nothing but the damp air
But instead I feel a hand
Of the darkness
emerging from
our souls, beyond
threshold of
the black mire
falling
headfirst
into the pits
dying, our souls
We're so tired of this world and all its' evil,
Tired of the horrible and fake people
Tired of the murder, the lies, and all the pain,
Tired of the bullying, the cheating, the earthly ways
In the dark of night,
The aroma's sweet smell breaks through every window, door and crack.
Love, happiness and joy all seem to be provoked in the still of the silence.
Facebook asking me to write something
Asking God to leak inspiration from my veins
Open the floodgates of Heaven and pour out my pain
It pains me, that I am not living to my full potential
The hands of time slowed down and opened onto a scene.
There stands a man with his shadow casted over a small form.
Turn out those lights and darken this room.
The temperature's down, it feels like a tomb.
Breath coming ragid and heart beating fast.
Waiting for this attack to finally pass.
Shutting my eyes to block out my mind.
Such a deceiving visage,
Many of who I had encountered
consider me an standard fellow.
The Truth is, I am a dark room.
Many had opened my doors
only to find the expected darkness.
He has razor sharp teeth and the autumn brown eyes you have ever seen.
His lips are covered in blood and his body is skinny and muscular
He’s unbearably strong and dangers of every since of the word
Last year I drowned in the sea of darkness and lament
So many mistakes I made that weren’t my intent
The time I spent on that path made me blind
To my friends and family that I left behind
The world is full of lies, greed, & lust;
The simplest definition of the most of us, as compilation;
We, not understanding how to be united as a people, have adopted racism;
What can be defined as an arena void of light?
An absence of Knowledge?
Where you cannot fight
Against the circumstances that are difficult to acknowledge.
Could it be darkness?
I had a dream
Where a world was free
It never mattered who you are
but what you will become
I am fighting for a dream
where I can be free
It doesn't matter who I am
Just what I want to become
I've overcome…
From the whips and chains..
I've overcome…
From the bitter taste and sinking pains..
I've overcome…
From the shackles and wounds that burn all day..
I've overcome…
Falling.
The fresh taste of blood salts my lips.
Rage. How dare I dream about a future that may never come?
For dreams bring the pain, despair of hope.
Hope for the better.
Anything better.
Butterfly baby,
traveling way too fast.
Uncertianity is her future;
Darkness haunts her past.
You thought you could escape.
You will suffer as I have suffered.
I am not what I was, I am what I will be.
You will never respond.
A hundred and forty feet below,
Tones of tan and brown are seen
Under light they've never known.
Tick tock goes the clock
Seconds in our life gone
To no end
We are dying, I am dying
I do not fear it however
I embrace the blackness
Let it consume me
Wallow in self pity, for it is me
