I am a conduit for the darkness of the collective soul
I am the mouth piece of disquiet
Striving in vain to go unheard, to live in torpor
Poised in the vacuum observing, vacant eyes
Doorman to the house of restitution
Biding time, waiting for the starters gun
Ever waiting, never finding, lost
Unknown and unknowing I am the fool
Granted language with which to write meaningless
Meaning is hidden in the eye of the beholder
Like beauty.....
Riding the mighty surging oceans of abstract
Swallowed and regurgitated, spat out and drowned
Clean yet unclean.....filth of the depths
Unbroken, riven by disfunction
Searching......searching......loading.....
Loaded full of blood and righteousness
Brimming with seething energy
I come forth......
Only to return with empty pockets
Bring me some doom in which to bask
Fancies to comfort the inward eye
Like sweet confectionaries that rot the teeth
Rotting a stagnant mindscape, swamplands unbidden
This flow never stops, river always runs
Refreshing the barren lanscapes hidden beyond
Here is the homeland of the discontent
Well travelled dark paths and wayfarers few
Towers of inscrutability foreboding
Thunder rolling like the beat of the war drums
Doom.....Doom.....Doom
Author notes
Couldn't think of a better title......tis a pretty random poem
A contest entry
- This is how I feel... by SummerlandRayne.
529 points, ended February 19, 2008, 17 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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For something supposedly random, it was also something I could sink right into... Creative word play and depth.
A soul so used to the frayed edges, where darkness gathers along the hem - shadowing even the slightest hope of surreality. Thought provoking write!
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fairdinkum!
tha darkness in your soul is true
and focus this wut u must do
spread your wings great dark bird
an make em listen until theve hurd
fly ever str8 o dark raven
let your words b never craven
for theres power there 2 cut threw tha lite
fly threw tha darkness in2 the nite!
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Not random at all hun.. your thoughts are always so deep and meaningful. Ahhh the darkness which envelopes... Meaning is in the eye of the beholder... and I see many things in this. Much of your soul is here... you do not go unheard!
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This is a dark jewell. A black diamond of truth. I would love to be able to express myself this well when I feel this over-whelming sense of worthlessness and smallness in the eyes of the vast universe. You are so great at just speaking what you feel...like it or not, here is my take on life, on the universe, on everything. Thank you for this entry. I am just swallowed in the depths of it.
Az
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