Amateur Poetry

   
Title:  Darkness Author:  Penelope
Date Written:  August 1999 Comments:  Click on the  to send your feedback or comments.  The author welcomes your email.
   
Sometimes darkness engulfs me and holds me tight,
Holding me in its arms, be it day or night.
I can't seem to release its firm grasp on me
I am drowning in an ever-darkening sea......
 
I gasp for a breath of life-giving air,
But the murky depths of darkness holds me there.
I search but for a small glimmer of light;
Not a morning's dawn, but not the dead of night.
 
Not even the stars shine on my lonely soul
And I feel the weight of darkness take its toll.
I find myself going deeper into the dark, 
Where there is no life, not even a spark.
 
Maybe I should just give in to this feeling of pain.
There is nothing more in this life to gain.
I have lost it all, every hope, every dream;
And in the darkness i sit; is that my scream.
 
The sound of silence can be deafening loud
And loneliness can find me in a crowd.
It has become to be my only trusted friend
I know that it will see me through the end.
 
I know that there is a Holy light
And it tempts me in the dead of night.
How easy it would be to end this dark pain
To never have to worry ever again.
 
Darkness surrounds me and tempts me to its arm
With promises of gladness and not any harm.
I find within myself the will to resist.
I order the darkness to cease and desist.
 
I may never find love again in this life
I may only find pain, suffering and strife
But I am willing to go on and search for the light
Even in this darkness, in the dead of night.
 
   
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