Get Your Premium Membership

Deepest Darkest Depression

Listen to poem:
In the deepest darkest depression, a void where stars expire, A mind adrift in cosmic gloom, no orbit to aspire. No comet’s blaze, no planet’s course, no light to guide the way, A nebula of shattered thoughts, where hope has bled to gray. Within this skull, a black hole reigns, where memories collapse, Each fleeting dream, a dying sun, snared in despair’s cold clasp. No galaxy to cradle life, no spark to warm the night, The heart, a derelict moon, spins in eternal blight. What path, what purpose, what faint star could steer this barren drift? The cosmos leers, a hollow vault, its spheres no longer lift. No warmth, no tide, no radiant dawn to pierce this stellar grave, A universe of ash and dust, where only shadows rave. And lo, the end, a singularity, with icy tendrils near, Doth whisper low, a final pull, to vanish in its sphere. To merge with naught, to cease, to fade, in dark oblivion’s maw, No fight remains, no will endures, no dread to cling or gnaw. Yet still I linger, bound to flesh, in this celestial tomb, A specter lost in starless depths, where only anguish looms. The deepest darkest depression grips, a cosmos cold and vast, My soul, a wraith in lifeless voids, forever doomed to last.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2025




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 4/20/2025 11:41:00 AM
Hey Joel. Bleak but realistic look at depression. I did something similar in my poem Monster. For what it's worth, the notes are unnecessary and somewhat self congratulatory. Best to let the reader decide the interpretation
Login to Reply
Woody Avatar
Tom Woody
Date: 4/20/2025 1:46:00 PM
Kewl
Hawksley Avatar
Joel Hawksley
Date: 4/20/2025 12:22:00 PM
Took your advice I just work with poetry so much that I forget that my interpretation is never warranted. Thank you.

Book: Reflection on the Important Things