Consumption

This is a personification poem I wrote a while ago. I used the emotion "guilt."

Consumption

 

Guilt is a man in a dark room

silent as an old church.

He wears a jet black coat

and stands still as a rock.

 

He looks out the window,

his cold fingers pressed up

against the glass.

His eyes plead,

wide with sadness

he tries to conceal.

 

Memories flash

across his mind

as he remembers

the burden lying heavily

on his shoulders.

Crumpling his back.

 

He is dying to forgive,

but the guilt is fire

pulsing through his veins

consuming him.