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Title: The Night
Author: Linedance
Date Submitted: 11/21/2008

 
Poem: It slips around me, demanding my soul
The sum of my broken parts, never the whole
Infiltrating itself into my brain
Leaving reason behind to feed the insane

Reaching in; wrapping itself around my heart
It works its way in; this is only the start
The destruction of self, no more to be
Where has it gone, and where is me?

I am left with fear, sadness and doubt
Pandora’s Box opens, emotion leaps out
Flooding and flowing, as blood from a vein
Only this blood brings with it unbearable pain

The feelings sweep over me, hard and intense
They are too fast and fluid to even make sense
I am smothered, I cannot breathe
Curse this possession, be gone now and leave

Not that my asking would make it so
I am helpless and captive; I watch darkness grow
If I could touch it, I would strangle it dead
Perchance it had a body I would shoot it in the head

By day I look good, but this is too tough
Morning comes they say, but not soon enough
The darkness enhances the chances of doom
I must go toward the light, and out of this gloom...