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Strange Love

tears flood in burst shells darkness gloom desperation – I need you my friend Quite used to apathy and sadness squared to infinity, my inner compass arrests on sorrow and shattered stars. The world, my Self and the future seem to have disappeared into nothingness with void shouting echoes in a vacuum of feelings, while reason only tortures the devastation and confusion that are left inside what is no more and never seems to have been. Daggering thoughts destroy the non-entity of being, while loneliness succumbs to multi-facetted voices in my mind. With my soul depleted and on life support, even the sun throws more shadows than rays and the moon wanes for there is no wax left in my candle, which I have so often burnt at both ends. The surface is covered in sticky glue that mocks and teases a centre and I have become peripheral and extinct. But nevertheless, I value depression. It is an honest friend and a strange kind of love.

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Date: 2/24/2023 5:07:00 PM
I understand what you mean, I once wrote that I am in love with loneliness, it is truly bittersweet, like the pain of cutting into a wound to release the poison~
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Date: 2/24/2023 5:13:00 AM
this is well written Kai. I've never heard anyone say they were in love with their depression. I know when mine comes around, Love is not what I'm feeling. However you did descibe the feeling very well.Good luck!
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 2/24/2023 7:01:00 AM
Hi Daniel. I have learnt over time that I have to accept it anyway and that it is after all an honest companion. Lots of kind wishes, Kai

Book: Shattered Sighs