Dark Depressing Poetry

Dark Depressing Poetry by LJ Kundananji

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1. Your Love is Hatred

 

Your love is hatred

It rises slowly, filling my single-roomed life;

No window, no door, no outlet for it.

Dark murky waters—cold.

Rising up my body—drowning it, killing it.

Depriving it of heat, wrapping it with ice.

 

Your sweet words are bitter;

Bullets of steel and lead

Piercing my heart

Sharp spikes of metal—buried in my soul.

 

The waters are getting in my mouth

Poisonous, as bitter as the putrefying flesh of your heart.

 

The waters are in my nose,

Ripping, slashing on their way down.

 

The waters are in my eyes,

Blinding, sand is kinder.

 

Darkness engulfs me, suffocates me.

I hold my breath, only to die;

Only to escape your love of hatred.

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2. All One

 

I am all alone

Alone means ALL ONE

 

Bits of my heart

Spattered on the wall

The white wall is now RED

Along the high way,

But no one sees

Because I am ALL ONE.

 

My boat drifts on the ocean

The waves are dark, tempestous

Tossing me up, side and below

No one rows with me,

No stars in the dark sky

But one—the one leading to DEATH ISLAND

Because I am ALL ONE.

 

I am shrivilled;

A stick, beaten by hail,

Driven by wind

And nothing to hold on to

Because I am ALL ONE.

 

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3. Black

She felt black...

Charred. Like burnt wood

By the fire from his mouth.

 

She once white

Is now black.

Her beautiful dress has now become

Strands of black cloth fluttering in the wind;

Ugly weeds wrapped around her body

When she stands in the mirror

Starring out at reality...

 

The knight of death

Clad in an armour of soot

Did look handsome.

But handsome is an ugly face

Hidden behind a mask of love.

When the mask falls off

The dragon wakes; the fire comes.

And she's charred. She's black. Behind the mirror.

 

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