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Sort by Title | Oldest first | Newest first  Depression 10 April 2006You don’t know me, you won’t see me
Hiding in my armoured shell
The chrysalis tightens and restricts me
A metamorphosis from hell
I scrub away the cracking skin cells
A fresher layer resides beneath
My true self stirs under the surface
And bursts free of the rotting sheath
I don’t need to hide from sunlight
I don’t need to hide from rain
I’ve outgrown my suit of armour
My inner demons have been slain. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 05 July 2006The shadow lies behind dead eyes
I search the mirror of my soul
Let me wallow ‘til tomorrow
My despair can take its toll. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 08 August 2004There’s no escape
My hands are bound
Buried deep under the ground
A dungeon of my own design
Forced, in vain, to serve my time
Pick the locks
I’ve lost the key
Embedded deep inside of me
Dungeon walls block out the light
I’m left alone, in here, to fight. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 10 April 2006Cut me, I need to feel
My life is no longer real
Discontentment rots my heart
Tearing me slowly apart
Bury me, I need to mourn
I could never be reborn
I’ve been left here all alone
My soul is turning into stone. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 31 August 2005, for Melanie (my little sister)The dark clouds drift across the sun
And so the storm has just begun
The carefree smile that filled your face
Has somehow died and lost its place
You were the innocent in this
I strain to think of what I miss
No more laughter; days of fun
The dark clouds covered up the sun. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 03 March 2008Trapped inside unshackled bondage
Bleeding from my hidden scars
Taunted by the darkness man
Who grimaces behind his bars
The parasite gnaws at my being
Putrefying in my veins
Underlying all my nightmares
A watercolour in bloodstain
I am a figment of the real world
My inner self conceived of lies
The darkness man will be my shadow
But what you see will be my guise. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 16 August 2003I view my mind with disbelief
Wondering what lies beneath
I feel that darkness underlies
It emanates through empty eyes
I’m afraid to dig too deep
Awake my demons as they sleep
Tiptoe around my fragile core
Across the shards that fell before. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com May 2001I had dreams
They used to sparkle like stars in my consciousness
All their glittering beauty is gone
You blew them out like the tiny flames of a candle
At first they flickered
But you continued to blow until you snubbed them
I am left in darkness
It overwhelms me and swallows me into its depth
I am in a pit of despair
Begging someone to just light one of my stars again. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 22 August 2005The hourglass holds grains of sand
Sifting through the reaper’s hand
My hoping is fading more each day
With despair’s trail left along the way
The hourglass is running out
The reaper glares and turns about
A hopeless man is laid to rest
Hands clutched tightly to his chest
The hourglass can seal your fate
Pointing out when it’s too late
Without hope we cannot live
There’s truly nothing left to give. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 24 September 2005A trail of darkness leading nowhere
Overcast by turmoil's storm
Barefoot over blazing cinders
Through a nightmare taking form
Slowly stripped of my defences
Forced to travel on in vain
No bright light to guide my journey
Just the promise of more pain
Life is full of pointless hurdles
To overcome to no avail
Happiness is rare and fleeting
In the end I always fail. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com August 2004Dark clouds loom
Engulfed in gloom
The deepest depth that it consumes
Fading light
Binds me tight
Silent choking in the night
I cannot hide
From what’s inside
I lie in wait and let it come
Standing tall
I face the storm
I’ll take the pain until it’s done. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com September 2004Watch me sink, helplessly
You know there is no saving me
Struggling will make it worse
A choking death becomes my curse
Paralysed and packed in tight
Swallowed by eternal night. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com 01 October 2005I’ve told you of my darkest fears
You said ‘don‘t be so negative’
I came to you when I was low
You said you had no time to give
People judge me by my mood
My illness becomes all they see
The leper distinct from the crowd
With self-inflicted maladies. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com January 2004I’m a shadow in the dark
The quintessential sound of death
I’m a shadow in the dark
Like the reaper’s icy breath
I’m a statue set in stone
In apathetic sleep
Let the world just pass me by
And I will never weep
I’m a shadow in the dark
The quintessential sound of death
I’m a shadow in the dark
Like the reaper’s icy breath
You don’t have to set me free
You don’t have to light my night
You don’t have to feel my breath
Or step into my line of sight
For I’m a shadow in the dark
You know I’m there but you can’t see
I’m a shadow in the dark
You pass me by, and leave me be. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com March 2004The grave is calling from its depth
Let me take my final breath
There is no will in me to fight
So let me rest in peace tonight
Ambition missed is a free fall
Don’t aspire, heed the call
The grave is calling from its depth
Let me take my final breath
There is no will in me to fight
So let me rest in peace tonight
The grave is calling, set me free
There is no substance left in me
The grave is calling from its depth
Let me take my final breath. Rate this Poem @ GotPoetry.com |