Peace

I always look for peace
The quiet I wish to find
Silence from the voices
That roam around my mind

This chaos in my head
That fills me with despair
Which poisons me inside
I can no longer bear

Death is the only peace
The only true solution
A for me to try
To cleanse me of pollution

Reviews

[authorised1960]

A simple yet rather troubling poem. Never is self-inflicted death a solution to anything!

I have read far too many stories, biographical pieces, poems and the like in a similar vein. They all have one single similarity: they really damn-well annoy me!

I have been suicidal; I even attempted it, but the one thing I didn't do was bloody WRITE about it. Neither did I inflict my self-pitying emotions onto the general public. I kept my personal pain and my personal feelings TO MYSELF. That is where this poem and all of the hundreds of other ones like it should be kept: to the author's self!

I know in advance that my opinion won't be a popular one, so PLEASE DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME MOANING AT ME. I am equally fed-up with do-gooders flaming me for having an opinion that does not offer universal praise for, at best, average work and at worst, mediocre writing. That is not me. I tell things how I see them. I make no apologies for that.

This poem is self-indulgent, 'poor me,' sympathy-seeking twaddle. It's not good, clever, interesting or saying anything that has not been said a thousand times before in more or less the same way.

[Feniks]

I understand, I am sorry if I have offended you. I do not mean to be any of the things that you describe, but I suppose you can indeed see it that way.

The poem is not about me, but about a friend that has been through that stage, and I wrote this poem after she told me everything. I know I can't possibly understand what that truly is like, but I tried my best to capture her feelings in words, and she loved what I did for her. (yes she is okay with me posting this poem for the public)

I have difficulty coping with my emotions in normal ways, so I write about it. I am not here to attract attention, I am here to learn from other people and become better at expressing my feelings through words, it's the only way I can.

[Peter Rogerson]

I don't get the penultimate line but really like the first two verses.

[Crystalmuse]

Beautiful emotion. I can relate.