Eating Away Poems - Poems about Eating Away

Midnight

...Midnight is like a square. 
A square patch of grass at midnight. 
Folds over. 
Hurts like spirals. 

Midnight churning and tapping. 
Weirdness. 
There’s such a thing as too many midnight moons...

The Reaping

...After "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

how long shall I be dreaming
of this place where darkness abounds
who shall lift me gleaming
show me your light and heavenly sounds
(or are you th...

Them Not Me

...They tactically play it out,
So you're left feeling the shame,
Then they act the victim,
Making out as you're to blame.

Setting you up to fail,
Using mind games as their tool,
For it to appea...

My Personal Dis-ease

...Why does doom feel so familiar
While happiness seems so far away?
How many times have you heard the supplications
Asking for help, or
Begging for mercy, from our suffering.
In this god-forsaken ...

Nanny's Song

...Breaking the silence inside my brain,wondering if I'll ever see you again
The falling of glass the breaking of sound 
Knowing That you're nowhere to be found 
My heart breaks for you, aches for my...

I was an ethereal shadow in the corridors, a whisper of denim and shy glances floating among them

...I was an ethereal shadow in the corridors, a whisper of denim and shy glances floating among them,
Invisible in their noisy bustle, a ghost with a too-polite smile, always on the edge,
Their notes ...

A Poem For My Truest Love

...I had a dream last night that I was as tired as tired could get,
And my legs were aching, and my hands shook viciously,
and my tongue fell from its hinges,
But still I saw you driving and followed...

Out to Sea

...

"Out to Sea"

In the immediate times 
we rush to consume it all 
before it is all swallowed, and out it all comes salty,
like an Ocean pummelling our crumbling sures 
ea...

Must Keep Trying

...Behind a mask, 
Nobody can see,
This inner battle,
Eating away me. 

A relentless war, 
Never to cease, 
Fighting each day, 
Determined for peace. 

Exhausted and emotional,
Awaiting the b...

When The Blind See

...

Galatians 5:13 “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

Never give me my way, Lord, unless my wa...

The Zombie Apocalypse

...(“I of the Beholder”, 2014, original pen and ink)

 The Zombie Apocalypse 

The zombie apocalypse began a long time ago 
First as a slow burn 
As it spread friend to friend, town to town...

Worst of them

...The Worst of Them" 

Funny how you push me away
Only to beg me to stay
A vicious cycle, a toxic sway
Cut down by your words, day by day 

The beating of a broken drum
Echoes the pain you've b...

Song of the Haloed Singer

...Come with me, oh clandestine friend
Staring at a child, caretakers sharpen the edges of her fatigue. 
Look at the wounds they keep running over—
I hear they are a source of mystique.

As they sw...

The Black Dog

...Trying to live by imaginary rules,
We believe we have to follow,
Only to think we're always failing,
Left feeling useless, empty and hollow.

With eyes red raw and burning,
From all the tears t...

Fear

...there is a tornado in my head
whipping around destroying everything in its path
i lie in bed
feeling its wrath
i just gotta keep going
for something has been eating away at me for quite some tim...

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