#darkness poems on Hello Poetry

Jeremy Betts May 31

Me against myself against I,
I am not alright
This darkness can not be conquered by light
I keep my feelings bottled tight, out of sight
Why do I hide?
Me against myself against I,
But who is right?
All I gotta do is make it through another night
No time to address it, I don't wanna fight
That's why I hide

©2023

#darkness #conquer #light #feelings #sight #right #wrong #night #fight #hide

Jeremy Betts May 29

~•§•~ My Future Escaped ~•§•~

The sun and moon eliminates
The draining darkness life creates
But my past constantly berates
As my future wiggles free and escapes

©2023

#sun #moon #elimination #draining #darkness #creation #past #future #constant #beratment

mace May 11

trust

the lights turned off & everything was black

but for that millisecond, i was not afraid of the dark

the dark moved as if it never existed
a void abyss, yet it didn't consume my vision

because i trusted that my eyes

would adjust to the darkness

And it did.

october 25, 2020. i'm proud of this one. this was the only hopeful / positive poem i've written from that time.

#dark #darkness #trust #lights

Piotr B May 10

Bombs

They are falling on us
from the blue sky.

It doesn't matter
how many of us will get killed.
They say too many, but that means to them
not enough.
They have their own language,
which produces its own facts.

They are constantly hoarding us
to have an easier target,
and to predict more sufficiently
the final outcome.

The bombing continues.
We have no shelter, no food.
We have forgotten our names, lost our minds.
Human beings
reduced to breathing flesh.

Being dead
is a luxury.

#bombs #darkness #war #people

Jeremy Betts May 7

~•§•~ A Touch of Darkness ~•§•~

Pay attention to what lengths one will go to
And still find themselves incapable of making it through
No push or pull through, both options taken off the table on a path of glue
Acknowledge the mental blocks that are constantly fought 1v2
Never told, so never knew
Sold a bad bag of repackaged goods labeled NEW
But these missing brighter days have an expiration on the carton too
As well as an enforcement of a curfew
That's never been required to pursue,
Yet they still do
While most never notice the touch of darkness lurking in their happy places too

©2024

#incapable #acknowledge #mental #blocks #fight #labels #missing #expiration #enforcement #darkness

Jeremy Betts May 6

~•§•~ Looming ~•§•~

My first mistake;
Going to Icarus to learn how to fly
In essence shrinking the distance to a wrap of pine
Resting eternal, days fly by
But never again will a day go by
Where I'll see another dark cloud looming in my sky
Where I'm headed there is no sky

©2024

#first #mistake #learning #flying #rest #eternal #never #darkness #looming #sky

My Dear Poet May 1

My Visitation

In your dreams
I draped down the curtains of my mind
and in your thoughts I hung high
the light of the morning sun
before you breathe
your last sleep of night
remember my shadow
by the window of your heart
hold me close
before our lives whisper passed

#dreams #stillness #absence #death #darkness #cherish

Jeremy Betts Apr 30

~•§•~ The Dark ~•§•~

How does it always find me?
Easy,
It is me
At the very least it's in me
Darkness is part of this story
And it's not something to envy

©2024

#dark #darkness #inside #run #hide #find

Jeremy Betts Apr 15

~•§•~ You Better Pray to God That God's Not Real ~•§•~

...being a beacon for darkness
...being a deacon of evil
...seeing no evil regardless
...seeing honesty as a hurtle
...restating unholy responses
...restating there'll be no upheaval
...ruling with no conscience
...ruling different for different people
...playing your god against us
...playing yourself in the process
...knowing none of it is real
...knowing if it is your going to hell

©2024

#beacon #darkness #deacon #evil #honesty #hurtle #unholy #upheaval #conscience #hell