Love Poem: Darkness
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Written by: Courtney Dyer

Darkness

Barely breathing in this darkness
Hidden in this cave
That I have barricaded myself in
Refusing to come out
Shutting out the world
Drowning in my sea of misery
Bittersweet memories of you invade my thoughts
For now you have faded away from me
Without your love
I feel hollow inside
I am descending further and further into this abyss of torture
I want to join the others
The tortured souls that departed this world before me
So their pain could be laid to rest with their corpses
As I cogitate about my troubled existence
I feel compunction for my transgressions
Concluding that my actions were detrimental to my happiness
As I exit on my final journey
I realize that I am already dead
I have been lying in a coffin my entire life
Slowly decaying away