Limbo... Poem by Dustin Bradley

Limbo...



Life is but a time, in which death has not yet found,
It's a cruel and evil punishment in which unhappily you are bound;
Life is death showing its ugly face as soon as your think your free,
Then striking fast to slit your throat and laughing happily;
You fall to your knees holding your throat; you know the end is near,
But wait, it's not just death anymore; it's also pain and fear;
The three of them do a morbid dance around your bloody corpse,
Pains six-inch nails slam through your chest like solid metal forks;
He rips through your chest and pulls out your heart with a grin from ear to ear,
He steps back laughing a sinister laugh and now it's time for fear;
In a black hooded cloak, it appears in your face, its eyes are burning red,
Time is of the essence now cause it knows you'll soon be dead;
It throws it's arm's up in the air, and your eyes go wide with fright,
And it conjures all the demons, monsters and creatures of the night;
Ripping through your tender flesh and clawing through your skin,
It's a pain like you have never felt and it never seems to end;
The creatures leave and the three of them stand back to watch you die,
Then all of the sudden, a thunder sounds and lighting feels the sky;
It shoots from the clouds and strikes the three with a burst of blinding light,
They scream and shriek and disappear, then all there is, is white;
Then all you feel is love and hope as you float up through the skies,
It's said, you can watch this as someone dies if you look into their eyes...

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this when I was a teenager. Age: 15. Talk about being broken. This was the most stressful, painful and difficult point in my life. My parents fought drunk every night, cops always there, chaos was all I knew. This poem very much reflects the torment that plagued my soul during this era.
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