Digging My Own Grave

Get out of my brain!

Small stones of concrete

Lives lost and some forgotten

In the darkened airy mist

Graveyard of past memories.

 

The perfect place,

The perfect spot

Pieces of me

Six feet beneath the ground.

 

Creatures of the night

Maggots and flies gnawing

At the tiny remains

Of my agonizing existence.

 

Hatred for the wrong

Liars and thieves

Taking everything, stealing

The innocence I once felt.

 

Swollen and tired hands,

I have worked too hard and long

Shooing away the flies

To forget these broken memories.

 

As I dig my own grave tonight

Broken memories will go forgotten

Stuffed within this coffin

Mourning the innocence you stole.

 

I will force myself to forget

The hatred that boils in my veins

Here lies my aching heart

Dead on the inside, its your fault.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Effector Prime]

Small stones of concrete.. remarkable line! I imagined the verses to be that of a Grunge-metal song that is heavily melancholic (the music/distortion) but with soft vocals (lyrics).. W.O.W.!!! It was amazing! Everything just fell in place! I could see the masses/audience head-banging to "The Perfect Place" verse (rewritten in thought to be the chorus).. Truly astounding experience. Wish we were a band haha! Keep writing my friend.. You inspire

[Brandi Nicole]

by releasing these thoughts and emotions, you are reclaiming what is rightfully yours......your life. the loss of our innocence is always difficult, but especially so, when it was either involuntary or impulsive. none-the-less, it is inevitable. don't bury your heart....you can't write without it.....and you not writing would be unfortunate for us all.

[KAREN]

Very dark and sad, and I believe I felt alittle anger as well. Great show of emotions.

[newyearnorma]

i love the way you express such a dark emotion. Very heart felt

[Revery]

Powerful and potent. Expression compounded to explain something that can be related in no other way. Maximum focus of expression that is as different as a light bulb and nuclear fission. As powerful as this poem is I wish it didn't exist, I wish you were not experiencing the suffering to be able to write it.

[paradise]

Got me a little creeped out but was very wel written and very enjoyable in the end well done

[LilMissWriter17]

Amazing. Even in the subject of darkness and sad emotions, this is amazing! Such brilliant imagery!

[TWISTED NIGHTMARE]

i love this piece...darkness,regret,sadness,pain are some of the emotions i get... this was wonderfully written...

[kathrina]

The details are...amazing. :) I love this poem.

[sounds of shadows]

a gritty, emotional treatment of a theme that bears repeating - the importance of burying the pain and the past and moving forward as best one can.