Still Fighting The Darkness Poem by Lisa Michelle

Still Fighting The Darkness

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Yearning deep within the pit of my soul
Misery aches inside my being
Everywhere there is a void, a nothingness...
Fulfillment? Is that the answer to my loneliness

Tears & hopelessness are so intense
My mind is spinning out of control...
Am I losing it?
That part of myself that kept pushing, encouraging me to not give up

The things that used to seem so important are fading rapidly...deterioration?
My hopes, my dreams, my very heart...
Am I being stripped of all my senses & loves?

Sinking into the darkness again...but why?

There is still this tiny piece that seems to will me on...is that my Lord?
Do I still have faith?
If so, how can that be, when it seems like everything that's ever mattered has diminished!

So melancholy, continually fighting with myself
I feel so pathetic...there's no reason
I have no guidance, no ambition
As to what to do with my life, let alone myself

I hope for a hand to pull me out of my self loathing
To give me a purpose, to want to live...
To truly be alive & happy!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Emily Stroud 24 December 2012

Other poem that touches me. You decribe the darkness that i feel we all battle at some point. raw and powerful =)

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Dale Mullock 03 August 2012

Sometimes you have to rise above the crowd, to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water and is more fit for gills than lungs, drowning you in sorrow; when dispair weighs you down like your own flesh, only more of it, an obesity of dispair and you think, how can my body carry or take this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes and you say yes life... I will take you and love you again... that takes spirit and purpose, resolve and gusto and then you can take on the world. Looks like you have already done this... keep on fighting the good fight Lisa!

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