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 most painful word? Is it hate? That abject raging emotion that… Hate can be fulfilled, one way or… Or maybe it’s sadness?
What is hope without hopelessness? Love without hate? There is a balance ‘but’ I feel no balance
There is a beautiful glade Covered in white roses Shimmering in the sunlight Ranks of tall trees with golden le… Surround the glade
Dim, grim, dark nights For thoughts to grow And darken even further still Sad, twisted, angry thoughts Swirl in the blackness that
When you’re too tired to feel Too numb to care When there’s no one there To hold you close The Darkness obliges
The Colours Are Almost Gone ‘Countless bursts of colours swim… Vivid explosions of expression That know no bounds That never had bounds
Where do I go Where do I run When each breath means pain The pain of going on Which is far worse than
There lies a wooden cabin Just big enough for one With a garden full of every colour… Growing softly, surely in the dark… With a pond to one side
Night comes The darkness closes in On the form sleeping in the bed It cannot be stopped It will take another victim
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
Sweet, sweet Nothing What could be more beautiful than… For Something is always Broken, Destroyed, Ruined, Who wouldn’t seek to pursue Nothi…
He is silent He is sad He is in the dark He is judged He is ugly
What is the surest way to kill a m… A man strong of body Murder his soul Take his meaning Tear it to shreds of
I am drowning In fire And burning In water. The fire embraces me in a cold whi…
Raging rivers of hurt Ending in Cascading waterfalls of sorrow That crash into A deep, dark lake of responsibilit…