A Room of Horror and Rust

This guy is about the despondency, lethargy, and listlessness that frequently sways me. The ending is a plea to God to impassion me once more, to 'let me burn' with a resolve to ever press onward

The soil, that opened grave

Avid to see me fall

I roil, losing my way

Distracted by every call

It grows foggy in this dour mind

Blurring out my want to strive

Dissolving the fire that was inside

Baring the teeth of the apathy I hide

I reel, swollen with fear

Before a chance to prove my worth

I feel derision drawing near

Primed to pounce with a written word

The wind will rise and my passion will die

Snuffed out like a hope in winter

Like a cynical rise my languish will climb

And abandon me to hopelessly wither

Torpid, glued to this chair

I let the current take me thither

Forfeit, my potential to glare

Absorbed by these chains that slither

Vipers in the room

A cavern is what it is

A place where I'm captivated

By the nothingness that exists

'Futile', said the teacher

'It is all meaningless in the end'

I could blaze a torch for hope

But it would be doused by sordid men

Why do I try when it seems every time

those around me turn a blind eye?

They stop their ears and dam their tears

Hardening their hears below a charcoal sky

Better backpedal when I slash my silence wide

Giving a vociferous voice to the vitriol inside

Weighted by the chaff of which I'm comprised

Black, the laughter that echoes

It resonates in my head

Ash, of pain that wallows

Of love torched to red

Rage, soaked in  red

Spitting out my disgust

Bane, this lonely bed

In a room of horror and rust

Passion flagging, apathy swelling

My muse flogged and lynched

I had determined to keep my dwelling

But tension had begged to cinch

Now exhaustion of will has become my name

Straggling, ill, and taciturn

Wilting my vigor into a nest of shame

When will You let be burn?

Author's Note

Here's another one, let me know what you think!

Reviews

[Dan Cowan]

Thanks much! Your appreciations are very encouraging!

[Rye]

This is totally awesome! I like this write a lot

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I like this better then that first one is have better flow and impression of poem is very beautiful dark tone. I can feel your honesty streaming from your hart there is lot of passion and emotions. I like this expression charcoal sky I think is very good. What you can improve I don't know I am not professional writer or critic. Try go over imagination write about something what you don't write before. Anyway I like your writing.