There Is An Angel Who Sits Upon My Shoulder Who Goes By The Name Of Death

There Is An Angel Who Sits Upon My Shoulder Who Goes By The Name Of Death

A Poem by thoughtsFromB4
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This deals with some rather dark struggles, but they are struggles that I know others face as well. Struggles that I hope might be eased in even the smallest way for another knowing they are not alone

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There is an angel who sits upon my shoulder who goes by the name of Death,


And though I cannot always see him, upon my neck I can always feel his breath


As he whispers to me relentlessly, deftly using my soul’s own Shibboleth.




He is my phantasmagorical companion from which there has thus far been no escape,


One who has no single voice nor form yet is somehow always horrific in his shape


When my mind’s eye sees him lying in the darkest shadows of my brain's path-illogical landscape.



For while it may be hidden, we are locked in eternal battle, one to which we both are bound,


And though the clashes rage on deep within, the fighting furious and yet without a sound,


The hardest part is not the fighting, it is the feeling that there will never be any respite to be found.




This war is one without casualties but still with victims--its battles waged within the mind--


But even having entreated aid from all my demons with any values I could trade in kind,


I have yet to even dream of any type of peace accords to which we would both agree to bind.




But what I have paid in pain to learn in this seemingly Sisyphean struggle is that one cannot sit idly by,


That every new assault of his is but an opportunity for me to learn new tactics that I can in future then apply.


Thus I have vowed: Whatever new mental munitions he has in store for me, nor what deadly schemes I must yet defy--


Though I know, like you, I too will one day meet my end, it shall be he who will be the first to die.

© 2024 thoughtsFromB4


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Such an interesting slice of poetic prosody! Love it. ~Sharon

Posted 6 Months Ago



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Added on June 1, 2024
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