A scream

One of my oldest poems and still one of my faves. It was published in a literary journal called Event in Vancouver Canada in the 1990s.

A scream cuts through still night
Ascending from the abysmal depths
of hell
spawned from
madness

Mirror cracked
Show my horror
that scream spawned from
madness
is mine

The beast is
close
behind
me
now.

Author's Note

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs8/i/2005/284/d/1/Cracked_Mirror_bad_luck_by_Barrin84.jpg

Reviews

[Zugzwang]

I loved this poem....so very dark. I think the theme of madness is such a compelling one and feel you pulled it off nicely.
Puts me in mind of 'Maniac' with Elijah Wood.
Not that I could sit through the whole thing.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. This one got me a visit with a psychologist when I was 16. Also got published. :)

[Érenn]

Wow. Powerful to say in the least. A voice within? Makes me feel like this could be a case of split personality, or maybe an inner demon you are struggling to deal. Love the brevity and very powerful. Now I am just wondering here, for some reason Show my horror doesn't sound right. Felt Showed my horror or shown my horror felt right, but then again maybe it's just the way I read made me feel like there was something wrong. Thank you for sharing ^^

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, well, I have left it as is, as it is a published piece. At the time the thought was present, and therefore I used the present tense. The mirror was cracked in the past, but the image is in the present. I enjoy you coming back to this one.

[Érenn]

Haha yeah when I am curious about a writer I have never read before I always read their older writes first ^^ Plus something the image of the cracked mirror drew me in ^^

[Lyn Anderson]

That is great. I do that too, and enjoy a good binge on the older writings.

[Ruth]

Ohh, left tingles, I felt this :) Powerful in it darkness and eerieness....reminds me of a doppleganger dream I had once, superb work x

[Lyn Anderson]

Happy to see that even back then you were reading me. I apparently did not respond at the time. Thank you.

[Joyce S. Greene]

You delved deep in your soul for that scream, K. I see you, too, are a fan of simplicity and of expressing your feelings in a few well chosen words and images. Great poetry!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks -- very late, I know -- this popped up in the feed and I had not responded to the reviews.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This has a feel of a psychotic person having insight into their delusions. It has a very mysterious and dark air about it.

[KLMazon]

I agree and couldn't have said it better than your comment.

[Lyn Anderson]

thanks for the reviews -- much late, I know, they were missed in the beginning.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the scream comes from so deep within...only we hear it..and when the mirror cracks, we realize, it is our madness to which we are ascending.

life can drive us to this.

i feel a split personality exhibited in this...one self vs. another.

nicely done.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thank you, apparently this was written a long time ago, before I understood to reply to reviews.

[Sami Khalil]

Dark but good...Bravo................

[Lyn Anderson]

Apparently this review was written and missed, thank you.

[Sami Khalil]

No problem. You are welcome. ....:))))