Abdul Malik Mandani Poet Free verse

Edge of Darkness

“My soul is a black maelstrom…” ~ Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.

Molten lava spews from my eyes
My mouth feels dry as the scorching desert sand
Fear like a heavy boulder sits on my chest 
My heart is chasing a Chimera 
A pit is forming in my stomach,
My head is riding upon a vortex
Conflicting thoughts swirling through my mind
forming a surrealistic whirlpool,
Grim and gloomy feelings shroud my being
permeating a fatalistic suspicion of society at large
dragging me down the road to depression.

A sense of emptiness is mushrooming within me,
like the morning miasma blurring the view,
All hands of hope have been withdrawn
Every moment henceforth 
is pregnant with some novel challenges,
Tackling a new task overwhelms me
and despair prevails over my soul undeterred —  
Bogged down by fate, 
Tethered to my faith, 
and mired in a spiritual quagmire
I am unable to claw my way back up
to Mount Calvary.


~Prompt 2: "As I slip into the void of this endless black."
~Contest: Venom and Stardust: A Birthday Prompt
~sponsor: Sara Jama.

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