The importance of a sentence is usually told in the sentence itself, whereas "extra" details are withheld in brackets, this poem is the exact opposite. The sentences are beautiful lies. The brackets are harsh truths and inherently of more import.
Written at 3:04 am on 05/12/2015.
© L.J. Slaferek
#Agony #Alone #Cold #Dark #Darkness #Death #Deception #Depression #Doom #Fear #Hidden #Hide #Insanity #Isolated #Lie #Lies #LonelyMadness #Mask #Night #Nightmare #Numb #Pain #Sad #Sadness #Shadow #Suicide #Terror
What is the blackness other than n… Could it be something tangible? Something you can embrace? What if it is the one embracing? Every night, as you lie
'Tic Toc’' The clock struck one There is a young man
Shadows all around Smothering the ground Scraping along the walls Of my mind A thing of darkness
The Sound of Nothing What sound does Nothing make? The sound of quiet A soothing sound Or a lonely one?
Your inability to see What’s killing me Endlessly This is my destiny A loop of death
The smile hides the tears The laugh conceals the pain The jokes save them from his suffe… “I’m fine” he says “I’m okay” he says
Great eagles soar Over canyons high Omnipotent eyes searching for Doorways to another Blooming sunburst
Screaming at the top of my lungs, Throat raw and ragged, And yet I make no sound. Blood pouring from my wrists, Ragged gashes forming a railroad u…
Putz She laughed, sometimes Made me smile, a lot Raged, sometimes Made me run for the hills, occasio…
Ice cold Nice cold, Frosty breath Chilling death. Burning flame
Depression is... Like a towering mountain, On my back Like my shadow, Always there, always dragging me d…
Thoughts collapse Mind full of gaps Can’t escape Pain takes shape Cuts on a wrist
Fade away We all fade away We suffer In silence And the world likes it that way
Where do I go Where do I run When each breath means pain The pain of going on Which is far worse than
What is the most painful word? Is it hate? That abject raging emotion that… Hate can be fulfilled, one way or… Or maybe it’s sadness?