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Damocles Apr 17
The stars cascade into their myriad shapes,
Connecting the dots across the vast expanse.
In the hopes of finding you within an upward glance,
I search for you.
But beneath me lies the dirt and the ******,
And remnants of you were where you once stood.
Your footprints have been carried off onto the sands,
And I am drowning in the waters like the somber of tears.
I will drink from you every drop until the memories tear me apart.
Another inspired by the ole journal, the more I reflect on this time period the more i realize how messed up this one relationship made me for so long...it truly was dark times.
Faith Cubitt Apr 2
all the cards were unfolding in my hands out of control
the lights were slowly going out as I dug my own grave but somehow you ended up falling in the hole.
I was the worst of all
but it's just so dark inside
please don't get to close
I'm trying to hide the truth
I need to let you go
I really didn't want to let you down
but there's such a beast inside  
I guess were all just made of greed
Don't look into my eyes....
Tucker Mulder Mar 19
Through the shadows of pure pain and misanthropy
Demons rise in bleak black smoke
Cloaked in black agony and nothingness
To decay in a deathless world
Means not to to thrive
Yet birth in pain from a wounded mother Earth
The womb of blood and infection
Taints the purest form of innocence
All life ceases to exist
Abandoned and dead
Skinless and blind
The faceless emerge from the grave
Speaking in tongues understood by the chosen few
Echoes of immortality and consciousness
Reverberating through endless fields of deceased life
Not a soul can not be heard
Effervescent screams of understanding
Pale skin of a ghostly silhouette
God hath no power over them
Nor the universe itself
The gaping wounds of our motherly figure
Bring to life the exiled silenced souls
Created to fail at conception
In a hopeless reality of solitude and seclusion
The misunderstood come forth together
Wearing the crown of thorns and blades
Rising as a pack of rabid wolves
The end is now the beginning
Dom Mar 17
It looks upon me
The dreadful thing
Wheezing through sardonic cackles
With razor teeth in uneven rows
Layers between the putrescent gums,
Saliva dripping like silk lubricant;
Eyes of fire and silt glow like embers in umbrage.
Thin pallid fingers with claw-like nails reach -
Unclean poisoned tips infecting with just the most innocent scratch.

The light abound atrophies within malcontent
As its hunched frame moves to blind the windowed view,
It smells of a potpourri of putridness mixed with viscera
Bile scented, sulphuric perfume,
It traces words into being as sound travels in silence
Caught in the misanthropic way it dances about the window
Drowning the light by consuming its grace.

I haven’t eaten in days and it salivates more
Hunger is what hurts it, I can feel the pangs -
Escape is futile, as limbs go insubordinate.
Voices long forgotten to haunt in stereo, off-beat,
Whispers of the past forbade now repeat
And each orb that ignited the dark plays back like pub televisions,
Memories brought to you by catatonic erosion
Mine for the low price of a soul sacrificed,
And three easy payments of lives yet lived.
It follows through the streamline,

Embedded in my *****
******* those swimming agents,
May each one lose the race and fall like lemmings
Disgraced and discarded among it
If only it can end with me - as it paces
Rays catching face, dialing pupils
Hissing like an annoyed cat I am famished
Accustom to the cold lingering -
Awash in the warm coddled embrace
And quickly back into the frigid again.
It follows, and it won’t be long now
Until it swallows,  grinding me within the endless maw
Torn and ripped to shreds by thorns adored as ivory teeth -
Consumed by the hungering doubt,
Depression’s evocation in divine rites

Demon
Jeremy Betts Mar 12
The monsters quickly collect under the bed
Graduating faster to free range demons roaming the head
Diabolical shadows lurking on the perimeter of the peripheral
Becoming a something far to real to think it still impossible
Unlike fear and loathing, fear and logic are seldomly seen traversing side by side
The unnatural occurrence of an unnecessary ride

By the time an oblivious mind realizes the kamikaze danger
The digits it controls are busy pulling out each heartbreak dagger
Those select few that came through the front from the  back
Create tallies in scar form that are starting to overlap as they stack
Teetering on life's edge as it dares me to take that final step over
Finding it impossible not to follow the devil when there's one on each shoulder
Lostling Mar 4
As a child
I hid under my covers,
Fearing the monsters of the night
Lurking beneath my bed.

But now they live in my mind,
Crawling through the cracks,
Festering— even in the sun’s warmth.

No blanket can shield me.
No lamp, no lullaby.

I close my eyes
But still, they linger.
The worst monsters
Aren’t under our beds
But inside us
IdleHvnds Feb 27
There are shadows that follow me,
haunting and taunting me.

There are shadows that follow me,
ravenous, salivating, ready to consume me.

They speak ever so sweetly, all the while threading each word with malignancy.

There are shadows that follow me,
I straighten my spine, while I feel them caress me.

There are shadows that follow me,
Paralyzed, while they devour me.

There were shadows that followed me.
Yes, I know that title is from the vampire tv show. Yes, I'm trying to lighten the poem by adding it.
Annie Feb 12
Blood, more blood
On the walls
The door

What you see is rusted blood stains
I see the flashbacks
Of myself,
Injecting poison
Thinking it’ll save me from my demons

You see sickening red colour,
I see my struggle
I see the girl swaying in thin air,
Trying not to fall, trying not to collapse

I see the arms with blood running down them,
I hear the muffled screams, “Help me, someone?”
Oh what a sight, that I can’t un-see now
She’s falling, hitting her head on the floor

Is she brainsick?
To yet put herself in this mess again
Overdosing like it’s a candy you can’t resist

Oh but, she’s only a human,
Trying to survive, trying not to die of emotions
Trying to let go of traumas she can’t forget
She’s only a girl
She’s only a human
She’s not a monster
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