I am but a child, a daughter terrified I am fairly small yet I cannot hide I watch the stars high up in the sky As they all go out one by one The night keeps getting colder The days are no longer The Darkness has won I cannot see Where you are My love; …
A stranger’s attic | a poem
There is a room, so dark and lonely, One I've never been or even seen. The way up to it, safely concealed, Guarded by the phantom in my dreams. There in the room, so dark, so lonely, Sit all my dreams, my heart, my family; Gathering dust, feeding the misery. Yet it's no more where …
The Sad Butterflies | poem
What isn't real cannot hurt meBut nothing is less real than RealityYet each day it destroys me,Each day it destroys me... Nothing feels as real as this misery ;I can feel them buzzing inside of meWith wings made of painful memories,Wings pulled by rotten strings. Oh, here they come, the sad butterflies,Waking up the storms …
A different kind of light | poem
Happiness has always felt to me Like a meaningless thing to chase Some say it is the place to be Others that it's out of this world I say it is a lie that you sell to a bird That you have trapped inside a cage. I have never been a believer Of Happiness as …
Where demons are born | a poem
Bad memories linger, they don't flicker. They won't go away with all the liquor, It can only make them stronger, Dancing around with more vigour. The place that you thought you had left behind Has in fact been following you around Hiding in the echoes of your footsteps, Singing along to your every heartbeat. Different …
The road I want to know | poem
All the places that I've been before, Have taught me pain and nothing more; Still, I stand. Life has tried and tried some more To twist my mind and rot my core; Still, I see the light. I learned to let the darkness be my home While I roamed through the streets alone, Helpless and …
A big ball of nonsense | poem
I am a big ball of darkness shaped like a cloud with an unstoppable frown, Oozing on the couch, leaking out loud; heavy with rain… Misery towers over me and watches over me; it never lets me be But that's just how it needs to be for the heavens to remain in the sky above …
