The Rage of great despair

Can't stand the horrors I'm seeing

Invading my thoughts and mind

Tearing apart my very being

Distorting my view of man kind

 

I'm standing there, as events unfold

Feeling the rage of great despair

When it's not hot it's far too cold

To go through this and patiently bare

 

I don't know how much it takes

For a man to realize at last

That he cannot afford the same mistakes

But by the time he does, it is too late!

 

They're hurting, burning, and killing

I am watching, hardly breathing

They follow me into my dreams

Knowing where I am, all the time it seems

 

Constantly I am haunted by fears

Imagining the worst would happen

I see my loved ones die, and in tears

I feel my whole life slowly darken

 

Plunged into this black world of dread

Are there truly monsters under my bed?

All these childish thoughts once fictional

Turn real and make my nights so terrible

 

When I'm awake I fear these terrors

When I'm asleep they are my nightmares

When in reality they cause these horrors

I sit there watching how no one cares.

Author's Note

First poem in English. I usually write in French, but I wanted to improve my writing in English, and that's why I joined writerscafe. This is just a start, hope it's a good poem.

Reviews

[Bubo]

This is a strong worded piece, watching a world slowly destroy itself..........I too have written a piece called "The Raping of Humanity", which expresses like you the shame of what we are doing.
Your english is very good.Your word flow allows the poem to move easily down the page, and the emotion is capturing and thoughtful.