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A Darken Room

A DARKEN TALE ONCE UPONE A TIME IN A LAND FAR BEYOND THE REACH OF GOD’S GOLDEN SKY THE DEMONS OF MY SOUL ARE CLUTTERING AROUND THIS COLD AND DARK ROOM PATIENTLY WAITING TO SEE ON WHICH ROAD THIS LOST SOUL OF MINES WILL TAKE ITS LAST RIDE ON FOR AM I TRULY ALONE OR PERFECTLY DEAD I WONDER NIGHT AFTER NIGHT AS I SIT HERE ON THIS COLD HARDEN FLOOR JUST STARING AT THE WALLS OF HEAVEN AND HELL AS THEY CRY OUT TO ME CHOSE WISLY MY LITTLE ONE FOR ONE OF THESE ROADS WILL FREE YOU FROM ALL YOUR BUDERNS AND GRANT YOU ENTERNAL LIFE FAR FAR AWAY FROM THIS FORSAKEN PLACE WHILE THE OTHER WILL SIMPLE JUST ADORE YOU AS YOUR GENTLY BURNS AWAY FOR COULD THIS BE MY UNHOLY FATE TO STAY LOCKED UP IN THIS DARKEN ROOM FOREVER WITHOUT NEVER KNOWING THE REASON WHY WHY THIS OLD SOUL OF MINES MUST REMAIN SHACKLED TO THIS ROOM EVEN THOUGH IT CRIES TO YOU PLEASE RELEASE ME FOR MY HEART IS JUST ABOUT TO EXPLODE FROM ALL THE YEARS OF EVERLASTING PAIN BUT I GUESS MY PLEAS HAVE FALLEN ON DEAF EARS SINCE I CAN’T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I’VE HEARD FROM YOU LAST OH WELL I MIGHT AS WELL JUST TURN IN FOR A FINAL GOOD NIGHT OH BUT WAIT WHO IS THIS I SEE FLOATING THROUGH MY WALLS OF TORMENT OF DELIGHT WHO IS THIS GHOSTLY FIGURE WHO DARES TO ENTER MY DARKEN ROOM FILLING IT WITH SOME KIND OF HOLY LIGHT IS THAT YOU GOD OR IS IT YOUR BETTER HALF SHALL I KNEEL BEFORE AND BEG FORGIVENESS OR SHALL I KNEEL AND BEG YOU TO JUST PUT AN END TO MY POECTIC LIFE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU AT THIS POINT I DON’T EVEN CARE EITHER WAY ALL I PRAY FOR IS THAT I CAN FIGHT ALL OF MY FEARS AND STILL BE ABLE TO WORSHIP YOU ALL WITH ALL MY MIGHT OR MAYBE THERE’S REALLY NO FIGURE STANDING BEFORE ME MAYBE THIS IS JUST A FIGMENT OF MY IMGINATION AND HE’LL JUST DISAPPEAR WITH A BLINK OF AN EYE BUT INSTEAD OF VANSHING THIS MYSTERIOUS STRANGER SUDDENLY REACHED OUT HIS HAND TOWARDS ME AND SPOKE IN GENTLY MANNER HE SAID GIVE ME YOUR HAND COME AND STAND BESIDES ME DON’T BE AFRAID I’VE COME FROM THE PROMISE LAND TO TAKE YOU FAR AWAY FROM THIS DARKEN AND TAINTED ROOM AND AS I WENT TO TAKE THIS STRANGERS HAND SO I COULD FINALLY BECOME FREE FROM THIS DARK AND DREADFUL ROOM THAT I’VE BEEN LIVING IN FOR SO MANY YEARS MY EYES SUDDEN WIDEN FULL OF FEAR AS THE LIGHT THAT WAS BLINDING ME SUDDENLY BURST INTO FLAMES SURPRISE! THE STRANGER SHOUTED IN AN EVIL LAUGH STOP TRYING TO FIGHT ME CHILD FOR I PROMISE IF YOU JUST HOLD YOUR WRIST STILL MY KISS OF DEATH WILL NOT LAST NO! I YELLED WITH ALL MY MIGHT I CHANGED MY MIND I DON’T WANT TO DIE AND JUST AS I THOUGHT THAT THIS EVIL STRANGER WOULD OVER POWER ME AND END MY LIFE A CALM AND SMOOTH VOICE CAME OUT OF NOW WHERE AND ENTERED MY MIND IT WHISPERED IT’S OKAY NOW DARLING FOR YOU’RE SAFE AND WARM JUST OPEN YOUR EYES AND GREET THE EARLY MORNING LIGHT WAIT WHAT? THIS WAS ONLY A DREAM NO IT COULD’NT BE IT FELT TO REAL COULD IT OH WELL MIGHT AS WELL TURN OVER FOR ITS WAY TO EARLY FOR THIS YOUNG POET TO GREET ANY KIND OF LIGHT AND AS I ROLLED OVER TO FALL BACK INTO THIS TUNNEL OF DARKNESS I’M GREETED WITH A FAMIIAR LAUGHTER OH NO NOT THIS AGAIN I CRIED TO MYSELF WHILE SLICING THE BLADE DEEPER INTO MY FLESH PRAYING THIS WILL BLOCK OUT THIS EVIL LAUGH THAT HAS GROWN LOUDER AND LOUDER WITH EVERY SLICE I MAKE BUT THIS ISN’T WORKING FOR SOME WHERE IN MY HEART OF HEARTS I KNOW THAT THERE WON’T BE NO ESCAPING FROM THIS NIGHTMARE NO NOT THIS TIME FOR I’M FULLY AWAKE NOW WATCHING AS THE BLOOD FLOWS FREELY OUT OF MY OPEN VEINS AND DOWN MY ARM AND AS MY BLOOD SPILLS ONTO THE FLOOR THIS EVIL LAUGH CONTINUE TO ECHO THROUGH THE WALLS OF MY BEAUTIFUL DARKEN ROOM I SLOWLY CLOSED MY EYES ONE FINAL TIME AND SMILED FOR NEVER AGAIN WILL I EVER LEAVE THIS DARKEN ROOM AND GREET THE HEAVENS GOLDEN LIGHT Copyrights © belong to jaci 2006

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