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What a World

Emotions of incompatible severance ebb my spirits Taking me into a world that no one has ever been Upon nights of deplorable torment I see the unseen Darkness wills me over and tears my heart away As I feel the hot, sticky tears crawl down my face Pressed against the scorching window I gaze into high heavens Pain dispersing through and avalanching my tearful eyes There’s a supernatural pressure pervading my soul Nothing makes sense anymore…my poetry is dying! The world in which I find myself is constantly fighting With emotions unchangeable…horrible…plighting I would kill them all to feel the one I shall never have I would kill myself to make the oceans part again Till then, let the pieces of me float gently in red waters Flowing seams taking me through; eels eerily watching Making me covet for action, to feel each satisfaction I want the anything, impossible to grasp My hands are hooves, I can barely hold you I can’t get out of this world; can’t escape the blue Zigzagged rhyming, bad timing…hating me Just cutting me more and festering harboring the pain The white blood cells are against me, blooming insanity And like a dump the junk increases and sinks into holes Sticky soil of dead corpses lifting the infection killing me Not enough; I’m still here…black, bloodied flakes I can’t hold on…my gory hooves are splintering in the coagulation My mind's eye is murdering my soul…aching…raping My head is still pressed against the window My mood eyes are set on the sun’s hemorrhage Piano fingers pressed on the crackling glass We’re shattering in this world of mine…I’m dying! What a world, what a world I’m plunging down into the sea as the snake snout finds me The eels welcome me as I sink into their homes Snap! Snap! Silent snapping of the flesh! Hear it? Lost in the brackish wetness of eternal sleep Not even aware they are eating me…everything— Save my heart; it’s still there…can you see? It has fallen even deeper, settling on the bitter bottom seafloor What a world, thumps the heart See what my world did to me

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 3/5/2012 12:54:00 PM
Congratulations on your super win Laura. Love, Carol
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Date: 3/4/2012 10:53:00 PM
Hey there, congratulations on a win in my contest! This poem makes me feel awful! Now that the ice is broken, I really do like your chaotic writing style, but I cannot deal with poetry that conveys such hopelessness.  -KMD
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Laura Breidenthal
Date: 3/5/2012 4:15:00 PM
Thank you!

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