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What To Name This,

I don't understand this..
My head is filled with thought.
But I speak none of it.
My heart is filled with love.
But no one to share it with.
My soul is filled with darkness.
But no light to shed on it.
I hate what I feel.
The pain is real.
External pain.
Internal pain.
Is what I feel.
I don't want to feel like this.
But I have no control over it.
My body is taken over.
Nothing feels real.
I sit in the shadows.
Afraid to see the light.
The silence overwhelms me.
Never knowing what to say.
My dreams turn to nightmares.
Terrifying and dark.
Trying to sleep at night.
It feels like a battle doomed to lose.
Drugs I consume takes the pain 
away.
Well they blind me from what's real.
Cuts on my wrist.
The only thing that feels real.
Depression consumes me.
As you can tell.
There's something trying to reach 
me.
Not sure what it is. 
Night fall.
Bright moon.
Beautiful stars.
Alone.

Copyright © Antonio Mack | Year Posted 2014



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The Voices In Me

As i sit on this bathroom floor, 
gripping a blade in my hand, with it 
firmly pressed on my left wrist. I 
start thinking this thought that could 
change everything.. End everything. I 
think of the people who would miss 
me. I think of the people who 
wouldn't care. I think to myself, 
"Should I be doing this", this voice 
inside me says, "Yes. Why are you 
living anyway? Nobody cares for 
you, they wouldn't even notice you're 
gone. They don't love you.. Come on, 
do it.. End it now, it's the best way.. 
It's the only way. The sound of the
voice was so weird. Well I can't say the 
voice inside of me was wrong. It had 
been completely right about 
everything. What if this was the only 
way? I wish it hadn't been true. It is 
the only way. I think to myself, "Suck 
it up! It will all be over soon. Just 
one, two, three quick slits and you're 
done. Get it over with already, i'm 
tired of thinking about it! Then all of 
a sudden, a voice said, "Stop! What 
are you doing? This isn't you." The 
voice was so heavenly, so clear, so... 
Beautiful. I didn't bother wondering 
where the voice came from, because 
it came like the weird voice inside 
me. I told the voice, "You don't know 
me! You don't know anything!" SLIT 
SLIT SLIT. Crimson blood, running 
down my arm. I feel calm and in 
control, but the pain is unbearable. 
Unaware of it, I start to feel tears 
running down my face. I get dizzy, 
the bathroom I lay in gets darker. My 
heartbeat gets slower, then, I fall into 
a deep sleep. Or what I think was a 
deep sleep. After a minute, I get up 
from laying on the floor. I look 
around, I see blood on the floor and 
something else.. Me. Still lying there 
on the floor, unconscious. I looked 
so relaxed. Then it came to me. "Am 
I dead?" Where is hell? Where is 
heaven? I committed suicide so 
heaven is not an option. I sit back on 
the bathroom floor.. Confused. I fell 
asleep next to my body. Morning 
came, I wake up feeling groggy, 
confused. I hear people banging on 
the bathroom door and yelling. I 
stand up, stumbling. I look around to 
see blood still on the floor.. But the 
unconscious, bloody body was 
gone.. I was gone. Am I alive again? I 
cleaned the blood, put on my best 
face and hid the scars. I opened the 
door and a bright light hit my entire 
body like I just stepped into heaven 
or something.. Everything is just so 
clear now.

Copyright © Antonio Mack | Year Posted 2014

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The Dream In the Sky

In this dark and gloomy room, 
staring out the window to the bright 
and mysterious moon. The winking 
stars in the sky, so conceited, above 
the slow and gentle clouds floating 
by. I close my eyes, and dream of her 
and I, in the sky, on those slow and 
gentle clouds, swiftly, gently floating 
by. Holding hands, I hold her tight, 
for the fear of her falling from the 
sky. But if she were to slip, I would 
bet she'd fly on wings of meditation, 
like the angel I know of her to be. But 
on the clouds we quietly lay, gazing 
up upon that bright moon. I look at 
her, thinking to myself. "You are so 
beautiful. I wish we could lay here 
forever." She looks at me, I softly 
say, "I love you." Then, she 
disappears.. I awaken to a tear 
running down my face. I look back 
out the window to that bright and 
mysterious moon.. But, it's gone 
now. Big, puffy, gray clouds cover it.. 
Then, it starts to rain.

Copyright © Antonio Mack | Year Posted 2014

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Deeper and Deeper

I am drowning.. Deeper and deeper I 
go.. Nobody jumps in to help.. 
Nobody calls for help.. Deeper and 
deeper I go.. I don't try to swim.. I 
don't know how.. Deeper and deeper 
I go.. It's getting darker.. Everyone 
leaves me.. Deeper and deeper I go.. 
Thoughts of her cross my mind.. Her, 
meaning love.. Deeper and deeper I 
go.. Thoughts of hate cross my 
mind.. Hate, meaning darkness and 
rivers of blood.. Deeper and deeper I 
go.. I haven't hit the bottom yet.. But 
I have a feeling it's coming.. Deeper 
and deeper I go.. I close my eyes.. I 
begin to relax.. Deeper and deeper I 
go.. My heart beats faster.. I get 
colder.. Deeper and deeper I go.. You 
would think im drowning in water.. 
But im not.. Deeper and deeper I go.

Copyright © Antonio Mack | Year Posted 2014


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