Drifting Into The Night | Poem

A dark poem I wrote back in High School. Out of all the poems I wrote to channel my depression, self-deprecation, self-loathing, and overall sense of hopeless dread, this I came back to. I share this piece as reference point of what has not changed, and what has. I still write dark pieces, but I know now I don't have to embody that darkness. I can let it breathe, let it be, and acknowledge that that it is not the only source I can draw from to feel something, or to write about.

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I don’t belong here

For every hurt I shed a tear

Nothing is ever clear

Unaware of my kept hidden fears

They look at me as a freak

An anomaly in this world they call home

Unwanted as the static in the air

It’s all I hear instead of your voice on the phone

I’m different as dark is to light

There can be no such union

Steal me away in the night

So I can escape the torment I feel within

My innocence raped constantly

I fear what I have become

This child I knew, I don’t even remember

I am this Demon I call my own

My Angel holds on to nothing more than an ember

An Untouchable being

Woman please heal this dark pain

This world set a flame

Severely damaged but sane

I’m a wild dog hooked to a chain

An old man without a cane

So obsolete my nickname is Bane

Jesus my Lord, will I ever choose to change?

Just slit these wrists and let the blood flow

Bitter, Depressed, Dehumanized, Emotional, Twisted, this tower I sit alone

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Drifting Into The Night by SoL

Lyrics were Composed in SoL

Performance was STAYonLIT

Published via Embold with SoL

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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST:

This Artistic Piece of Literature is the Sole

Intellectual Property of The Original Author &

Copyright Owner by name of Steven O. Lynn

bka SoL aka Mista STAYonLIT; All Rights Reserved.