Arise

Out of the darkness and straight into the light
Out of sweet death straight into everlasting life
Out of devastation straight into the destroyers sour demise
Once asleep in a grave...now awakened I arise

Like a firebird rising out the ashes of affliction
Once the mad architect of my own annihilation
Once fear and frustration it flooded my soul
Once lost at the bottom of a bottomless hole
Once a ravenous rider on a black horse of hate
Once force fed lies...now I watch...now I wait
Raw revenge is a dark dish that's best served cold
I am iron
I am ice
Once asleep in a grave...now awakened I arise

Like ghosts of glass...shattered spirits of sin
I'm the writing on the walls
I'm a whisper in the whirlwind
I'm the solitary soldier on a suicidal bend
I'm a screaming skeleton choking...on my own invisible skin
Seek and search for me but you'll never ever find
I'm the end of the world
I am Armageddon sunrise
Once asleep in a grave...now awakened I arise
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Nance Avatar
December 12, 2014 at 4:41 PM
Wow! That line "I'm a skeleton choking..on my own invisible skin" Dang that's good! I'm gonna have to keep my out for you! Awesome! :)
Helppi Avatar
December 10, 2014 at 9:50 PM
The stuff you write smashes against break-walls. And it makes for awesome spray!
Andresen Avatar
December 7, 2014 at 7:28 AM
- Warm welcome to PoetrySoup, Anthony - I choose your first great and very well written poem !!! - Nice to meet you! - Hope you will be satisfied with our "soup family" - we are many .. but has plenty of room for you too - Keep the PoetrySoup as a haven - (Comment on the poetry of others and they will comment on yours.) Thank you for posted your words and thoughts here, I want to come back to read more another day. - oxox // Anne-Lise :)
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