Dark Poem

This is a somewhat dark poem I wrote a couple weeks ago. I try to be positive about life but there are times when you just have to let the darkness out of you. I was in a low place with my pain the day I wrote this. If your looking for something to help you feel good this is not the post to read but honestly I have not been able to write poems of a positive nature in a very long time.


My stomach turns inside out
The depths of despair diminishing my soul
The utter hopelessness dragging me to the breaking point
While the only life left within me is sucked into the abyss

Fighting the battle to yet survive
I continue
Clawing my way through each passing hour
Each passing day
Blindly reaching for a surface that never seems to break

I put my hand out to the constant pain that holds me prisoner
I beg for its mercy and ask it to release its hold
Only to find it's grip tighter
Holding even stronger

It snarls at me and asserts itself
Reminding me I am its eternal slave
I am no longer free
I am trapped

My stomach turns inside out
The depths of despair diminish my soul
The hopelessness drags me to the breaking point
And the only life left in me is sucked into the abyss
I am no more