Printed below are three of my poems. I haven't included any of the epics (like "Orange Crush Sun" goes on for about six pages or something!) I didn't include any of my love poetry here ... it's probably too mushy and stuff for the internet. I'll just write some brief notes concerning the poems below, mainly what they're about.
On a general note, I usually write when I am depressed, so if it comes across that way, it's probably reflecting the mood I was in. Sometimes I can write when I am happy. I like to re-read my poetry afterwards as it cheers me up. I know that sounds a bit weird, but it works.
I divide my poetry into a few different categories; Depressed, Love Poetry, Artistic, Manic, Songs (because some of them start as poems and turn into songs ... or the other way round. So they include versus and choruses), and miscellaneous. (With possible over lapping of some poems).
Colder Than the Moon - This piece is both a poem and a song. The song lyrics are similar, but not the same as the poem below. Basically, I wrote this while going through my divorce, so it's really just about that. Don't read anything else into it. This one I probably classify as depressed, love and song.
Insecure - Also about my divorce. Probably because I was feeling very insecure in every aspect of my life at that time. Well, it was written a long time after my divorce, but I was still feeling the negative effects from it. Fits in the depressed category.
Darker Places - Just about my depression. A lot of my Depressed Poetry explores dark themes and sometimes depression (the state of being depressed) in general. No prizes for the category this one fits into.
Colder Than the Moon
Colder than the moon
That drifts across the endlessness.
Your unloving touch,
That lacks the needed tenderness. Across the great expanse,
It drifts and dimly glows.
You the only one,
Who chose to change friends to foes.
Clouds drift across the face,
Concealing Lunar's mirth.
Hidden within your breast.
The most distant place on Earth.
Too distant to touch,
The surface cold and dark.
Colder than the moon,
The feelings in your heart.
Insecure
Sometimes
When lying here alone
I wonder
Insecure
Will you come home?
Will you still like me?
When everyone else
Has left and forsaken me
Lonely
Abandoned
Wondering anxiously
Awaiting some word.
For words we had
Too many and not the ones
That I wanted to hear
That I needed
Needed to reassure
Talk
Talk to me
I need to hear
I am still wanted
It's Okay to be near.
I pour out my feelings.
What do you care?
Darker Places
The darker places
That I find
Myself inhabit
In my mind.
Twisted depression
Takes me low
Nobody cares
Nobodies close.
I'd like to run
And find a place
Where no one can see
My heartfelt aches.
I'd like to hide
From all my woes
The darker places
That I chose.
Darkly unified
To strike and scorch
My fragile soul
Scathed and torched.
Wrecked and weakened
Ever onward
Seeking substance
In darker solice.
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