Byproduct
By Dustin Branum
Have you no clue how hard i try
To keep positive alive and negative aside
Why must you insist, genocide
Why must you feel the need to lie
I don't remember the reasons why
I cater to your deceptive lifes
What makes you think I'd oblige
Why must you live this way of life
Have you no clue how hard I try
To not do the things I so despise
To keep a hard face and try not to cry
If I do so, shall it be my demise
And should it be, I give you my word
Destiny will be mine fulfilled in time
I'll show the world that's being disguised
Time to reveal this knowledge I hide
As everyone starts to wonder why
But it's little too late to rectify
Nothing you say can justify
Living such a demonic life
My deepest fears are coming true
Total darkness is bleeding through
Raging inferno that's within my soul
No longer desires to maintain control
Exposing this darkness for all to see
"Reveal your demons!" You beg of me
Late at night she lights up the sky above, cast down apon us its the way you show us love, the world is yours as it is my own, let your beauty to the world be shown, keeping us from total darkness by allowing us to see, the things that lurk in the shadows around me, your time might be short as you move across the sky, but it's the way you share your light from way up high, the only one of your kind your name we call the moon, and In the day I say good by but I know I'll see you soon.
Standing at the pointed edge of this cliff,
Staring down at the jagged rocks below...
Holding the fraying rope of life hanging from above.
Wondering, I shrug...
Should I just let go?
Supposedly a light at the end of the tunnel,
Just how long is this winding road?
Complete n' total darkness along the way...
So damn tired of this never ending cold!
Standing at the pointed edge of this cliff,
Staring down at the jagged rocks below...
Still holding the fraying ropes of life,
Hanging from above...
Wondering... I Shrug,
Should I just let go?
Supposedly a light at the end of the tunnel,
Just how long is this winding road?
Total darkness along the way...
Just too tired of the never ending cold!
Solar Eclipse Brokenness
The moon covers the sun’s bright lights
And brings a total darkness in our sights
Fades out the figure of fake possessions
Cuts out the string of short time connections
It brings cold feeling and gloomy emotion
Suddenly makes a person stuck in motion
The beats of the heart skips for a while
Not longing for love, the heart is now fragile
As dark as the eclipse, the broken heart was
No rhythm is on point, the melody is bass
The flare circulates the tears of longing heart
The dim hue deleted the hurt of the start
Let it be, the hurt, and pain, feel and endure
Like moon covers the sun, safe and secure
Love as the eclipse, embracing the flaws
Love as you love, ready to break the laws
In Total Darkness - Naked Doesn't Matter Anymore
AI Can Never Be Enlightened.
-Gray Squirrel
06-03-2025
At the cusp
Of a wave, a change, a fall
Into total darkness
Here we stand
Or rather slide
Headfirst into destruction
And as we fall
Into chaos and dissolution
We will at last be saved
And in that moment
What we took for granted
Will be lost
Within the total chaos
Law and order will be established
And with it the end of freedom
This is the new world order
That awaits when their machinations
Come to fruit
You, me, us
Reduced to so many parts
Without regard for who we really are
And in the change
As the light of dawn unfolds
Will we be revealed as spirt or flesh
And in the severing
Will we sink or fly
In terror or relief
This is the cusp
We find ourselves on
As the powers that be extend
And as they grow
And we still have a choice
What will it be
(10/25/24)
Human’s ready to serve
Zombie’s flesh crave
Human’s have no time left
Hungry in wanting
Appetite in needing
Thirst for blood
Head to toe serving
Eat day and night
Human’s get no sleep in plight
Total darkness with no light
Danger Danger Danger
Zombies enter
Eat in content
Flesh to bones
Never be alone
Zombie eat up
Rumble pours upon the Earth
Lightning flashes with more flashes
Strikes here and there
Heaven’s command on the Earth to hear and observe
Heaven’s relay
Mighty and strong
Separation with no get along
No evidence of preparation
Earth’s disobedience
The wrath of true divinity
Thunder continues to rumble and assemble
Echoes of breezes
Releases of total darkness
Soul’s uncertainty
Earth doesn’t echo back
Words on high hear Earth
Wonders below being Earth
A Mighty that can and could
Earth who should
The wicked undeserving
Honor the Master
One who can change and rearrange
Image unseen
Risen and clean
Rumble of Thunder being a reminder
Lightning with concluding assuring words
You heard
Now comply
My deepest fears are coming true
Total darkness bleeding through
Raging inferno that's within my soul
No longer I desire to maintain control
Exposing the darkness for all to see
"Reveal your demon!" they beg of me
Seven colors of the rainbow
Each crowned with a gift
A lifetime gift in each line of the rainbow
The World was once in total darkness without a gift
Beauty of nature the World has never felt or seen
Earth as one world asked for a gift
God of heavens said that beauty can be seen
Until all creatures thought of praying
Praying by kneeling no one has ever seen
Humans are but one product of belief in praying
That all creations must be ruled by superiors of giving
Superiors in human form, striving and praying
All creations harmonized in sharing and giving
Making everything simple, in thinking and surviving
Rainbow as one creation and gift, in seven days of bright light and whole-hearted art of giving.
A boy plays behind guarded gates,
unaware of what fate awaits.
And a chilly wind sways the trees,
whistling with every feisty breeze.
Pointing to a jet in the sky,
he's mesmerized as death streaks by.
And when you snatch him up to run,
the earth erupts bright as the sun.
A siren warns of an attack,
the air explodes, and all turns black.
And you wake from a numbing sleep,
racked by pain, and begin to weep.
Opening your eyes, the sky's gone,
total darkness erased the dawn.
And your ears ring painfully loud,
buried under a smoking shroud.
Reaching out, you encounter death;
your child is without pulse or breath.
And a piercing pain stabs your soul,
your son lies dead here in this hole.
Air and sound rush in together,
but all you smell is burnt leather.
For in times of war, hope can't rise,
what is life; when your whole world dies?
(Rhyme)
02/09/2023
A sudden downpour, drenching rain
Marble-sized hail has covered the ground,
Warnings of a tornado in western skies
Street flooding in neighborhoods all around,
A summer storm with booming thunder
Lightning flashing in rhythmic streaks,
Water gushing down newly paved streets
Turning them into uncharted creeks,
Suddenly total darkness has descended
Like a pall over nature’s flowered bier,
‘Midst noises akin to banshee shrieks
Unexpected expressions of natural fear.
As quickly, thunder in lower tone speaks
When we learn our plaster ceiling leaks.
A Revelation
Adrift alone in silence amidst total darkness
I sense the universe as a warm sparkling vessel
Not fragments of insignificant frigid orbs
A throbbing heart embedded with infinite dreams
For weary eyes in search of meaning and possibilities
11/22/2021
8:04 p.m.
Lake Worth
Florida
USA
I startled awake, early Sunday morning,
fraught - my mind, darting like a panicked animal
because my assignment calendar
is wet, smeared and illegible!
Total darkness - I fish for my phone by it’s cord - it reads 3:08am.
I flop back onto a cloud of thick, memory foam.
Ahhh, jeeez, it was just a DREAM.
Of course, my assignment calendar
is safe, digital, redundant, cloud backed up.
“THAT was a little morbid.” I think,
as I drift back out of consciousness.
Sub Categories
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.