"lightlessness" poems
So often you vanish in the dark,
my fair weathered friend.
Although it is there where I require you the most,
my reminder of a silhouette existence.
I will become my own shadow,
no difference between me and lightlessness.
I expand like a riddle in your thoughtless mind.
Nov 6, 2023
Nov 6, 2023 at 3:01 PM UTC
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A chain of lights
lead off into the distance,
illuminating little
but so bright in their own world.
Along an old animal track
to a standing stone
ancient in peaceful repose,
a family sigil,
weather worn by time,
proud of its place
marking the passing of aeons.
The light blinks out
and darkness falls like a drape
of lightlessness,
and the Crest crackles,
miniature lightning
caressing the old frigid stone.
Waiting.
© Pagan Paul (16/06/19)
Jun 20, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 at 3:42 AM UTC
Something in the places where
Sunlight doesn't fall
Looks up with eyes pale from
Lightlessness,
And wonders
About the meaning of roots so
Weak they
Only serve to keep it
Down from windborne flight.
Useless anchors;
Tears from the blind in an
Empty room in a house where
Nobody cares.
Something in the places where
Sunlight doesn't fall
Withdraws; dares not dream of
Warmth from rays as sweet as
Mother's love up
Above. Forgetting:
All you can touch, you
Can climb.
Darkness is owner of
Nothing
Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 8:07 PM UTC
waxing streets a maze of affluence
Those spots of hidden lightlessness blockade a fear
So few can hear, shadowed an paired
The gentle raps slide close behind
A soft rustle the only hint
Breathes quicken as footsteps follow
A burst of slick fear the final taunt
Sudden claws wrap around the soft flesh
The neck bared to chilled midnight air
A shock smothered screams
Cruel fingers tear away shields of appearance
Barren and defaced,
fast harsh strokes rip through the night
****** lips whisper nothing
A rustle is all that tells of a loss
the click of steps recedes into a gathering dawn
Apr 1, 2012
Apr 1, 2012 at 12:38 AM UTC
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Oh! wicked vicious blindness,
pleasant part of darkness,
Softly called sightlessness.
Your symbol is blackness,
Oh! wicked blindness.
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Bearing the least resemblance of white,
Stagger and stumble becomes ultimate,
Best friend turns to be the dark night,
Lightlessness's the only thing you await.
Oh! wicked blindness.
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The very moment they become blind,
Then, sight declined, death affined.
they begin to see the never seen,
For them, the seeings go no theme.
Oh! wicked blindness.
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My only saviour is the Ear,
No ground for delight in ******
why?. Sorrow is all I hear,
In both physical and spiritual.
Oh! wicked blindness.
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Hello! To all the sightless fellow,
Known and Unknown in sorrow.
With you, I do feel the pain,
With Maker, we'll break the chain.
And the lightning sight, we'll regain.
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To hell with the wicked, vicious Blindness..
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Okoye Chikamso (Mr_Focus)
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Jun 4, 2018
Jun 4, 2018 at 12:24 PM UTC
With wings removed he falls through midnight’s sky
Tumbling toward a dying earth
Screams of anguish lost within winds tongue
His fall is observed by none but I
A layer within the cloak of the night I watch
A sheet within the blanket of darkness I listen
The fallen's hate washes over me as he passes by
Coating me in emotions of lightlessness
Removed from Shallows above
Leaving a streak of darkness in nights sky
As he reaches earth below
A cry is raised above nights wind
I look above to an eclipse of lightlessness
A myriad of wingless tumble through the sky
The apostate seraphs to join their master below
An endless cry of agony tears through my ears
As one they reach the dying earth below
Their fall shatters the planet to pieces
Its heart is broken
Its blood soaks the fallen
Jul 4, 2010
Jul 4, 2010 at 11:49 PM UTC
It's 1:21am.
And I would've still been on the phone with you, had it not gone all wrong.
Now I just lie in a mattress of emptiness & an ambiance of lightlessness.
Listening to lyric-less piano chords remixed with the memories of you and me.
And how we used to be.
I hope that someday,
Just as every overplayed song on the radio,
This melody will fade out.
Never to be heard again.
Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 4:11 AM UTC
it's 2 am
and she is
inhaling lightlessness
black oceans through the veins
like the sky without
the moon comforting her
through his loneliness
because her eyes were shut,
swallowed the stars into
the heart
and dimmed the glow
like unlit glitter
turning into dust.
Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 8:13 AM UTC
In darkness I stand
Into lightlessness I dip my hands
My eyes glow from lies contained
My hands twirl a blade sharpened truth
Sliding the dagger across fragile skin
Feeling my life pour out from within
My life separates into separate strands
Blue, Red, Silver, Black
Blue for emotions frozen into ice
Red for love I cannot make disappear
Silver for a God that should not care
Black for my soul that houses nothing good
They coil around me
Surround me in light
Flicker
And go out
Course ropes of darkness surround me
Mockeries of what was inside me
They pull themselves around my throat
Bind my hands, legs, and feet
Tipped by a gust of silent laughter
I crash to the ground
The earth slowly consumes me
Pulling me into an unmarked grave
Though long before I am brought to suffocate below
The cords around my neck remove me from consciousness
There can be no awaking
Already dead and brought within a dream was I
Where am I to go?
When after life all I am able to do is die into another night.
Jul 5, 2010
Jul 5, 2010 at 10:25 PM UTC
it's not the sound that you miss
or the view
or even the touch
or the lips
or the sound of the walking shoes
rushing forward in a stamping blitz
halted by the shadow's looming lightlessness
its not any of this
what you miss is knowing
knowing that you're not standing next to the wind
or particles drifting through your hands-
but knowing
that someone is there
and they have no plans of going-
May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020 at 9:18 PM UTC
how do you solve a problem like
grieving?
i sat in a dark room for two and a half years
listening to old tapes of conversations with a dead person.
it was cold and unkind and thick with melancholy
and i couldn't find the door in the blackness
and i didn't call for help
and i didn't try to fight my way out.
it was horrible but it was comforting, somehow,
because i could tell there were other people trapped in other dark rooms with other unshakeable sorrows,
even if i was alone in mine.
and it was getting worse.
i should've been getting better,
adjusting to the lightlessness,
feeling around for the doorknob.
but i was sitting still
(and maybe going blind, too)
and here's the part of the story where everything gets better
...almost.
a ouija board grabbed my wrist and pulled me towards her
and it was the last thing i expected.
and a ghost
my ghost
spelled out his name and said hello
and i have never felt so at peace.
he said he missed me and that he was happy now
and my heart was floating in my body
and i was crying, as always,
but they were the happiest tears i've ever cried.
oh my GOD does it feel good to have your soul quieted
after two and a half years of unrest
and things you never got to say
and times you flaked on plans that you wish you'd kept
and laughs and hugs and
it wasn't all fun and games, when he was alive.
it was talking him down from panic attacks
and praying he wasn't hurting himself anymore
and faith that he would thrive
if he gave himself the chance.
it was the loss of innocence and the search for innocence
all wrapped up in the same two shared bodies.
we both tried our best.
and my heart cracked in a hundred places when he left
how do you solve a problem like a dead best friend?
i still don't know.
but a ghost by his name sent me love through a ouija board and told me to get my **** together,
just like i had told him when we were in the same world.
and it's almost three years
and i miss him just as much as i always have
but i think i can handle it now
at least a little better.
maybe next time i see him we'll be scarless and innocent again,
or maybe we'll be just as ****** up
but there's peace in knowing the reunion is coming,
no matter what form it takes.
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for lucas, my heart. see you soon enough.
Sep 7, 2018
Sep 7, 2018 at 8:14 AM UTC