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Light Cowers As Darkness Howls At the Night

Well I just can't decide if I wanna live or I'm gonna die It's hurting like a disease and I really need to fly So I'm searching for a reason to give life one more try But all I get is pain disappointment yet again So it seems like it's the time, to leave all this behind. I'm merely supporting a system I don't believe in Feel I'm caught in a cistern I wanna be leaving Have you learnt, religions warped and broken I heard it preys on thoughts unspoken And politicians may be the cruellest of breeds But they only Tell the lies, it's the fools who believe. Is it insane to wish toward lying in a coffin If pain is the only reward life has to offer I may seem, considerate and caring insisting your problems we're sharing (it allows me to hide from mine...for a time.) Hope remains meaningless when nothing changes Folk wrote the same more or less, all through the ages As a wise man once said "You can't live your life for someone else" I contrive that message onto its head I Could cry for help? Or should I lay down dead! How much more do you give it before you decide to quit? If I find a door that's open That rooms been raided twice before I tried that thing called hoping I dream a wish may bring me more I'm down and out and broken Gimme the postcode for deaths door For the ripples ALL life ever make, dissipate at that shore Please don't judge nor weep too much For I'd suffered the worst hell, so bereft And as I took my first breath after death One look at the burst shell that I'd left It seems my skin was cut from a different cloth I'd been sinking as a butterfly roaming with the moths.

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Date: 9/27/2017 8:43:00 AM
yeah we thought your title sucked ... not my type of read ... felt like the chemicals you took tried to let your demons lick me ... me say ... no no no ... we shake the moth dust before it reaches the light ... shook shook shook ... all non sense off ... nice little skit mister ...
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John-Ovan.P. Hull
Date: 9/27/2017 11:40:00 AM
I'm sorry to hear that, I was hoping the title may Blow you away, I expect it was just that my demons may have thought you would taste nice,(It's always nice to reach a new audience;) after all they have been feasting on my flavour of torment for a long time, if my soul were visible I am sure the scars would look like a glacier branding a mountain.
Date: 9/20/2017 1:54:00 PM
So much, so much. And so relatable. Love your last lines :) xomo
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John-Ovan.P. Hull
Date: 9/26/2017 6:49:00 AM
Greetings and ManyThanks for your kind comment Maureen, I'm glad you liked the last few lines as they were a little variant on something I'd done before but I tried to freshen it up cos I thought it may give me a positive (ish) kind of ending. Hope you are well and thanks again, luv Johnny. Xx

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