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DreamEvil
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

0 posted 1999-11-25 10:32 PM

As above
so below
inky blackness
meets ebon night
an orb formed
of primordial dark
briny deep
cold and lonely
filled
by cast-off sorrows
boundless sky
empty with despair
Upon this ocean
of loneliness
I float
crucified
by misunderstanding
I reach
with futility
to the joyous lights
in the heavens
knowing
I should be there
but know not how
to aspire
to such heights

Loneliness rocks me
with gentle misery
inducing
both stupor and vacant stare
from the depths
a desperate hand clutches
for anything to hold
my own discerning need
refuses to release
one who must win free
eyes of love
lock and hold my own
hypnotizing my mind
with a rush
of belonging

Stygian seas
lap at us
endless night
presses down
glacial souls
give no further chill
joined hearts pour warmth
in the circle of our being
as one turning
to those far away lights
with need

Despair
isn't so lonely
anymore

©1999 DreamEvil

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Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©
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"Either kill me or take me as I am,
because I'll be damned if I ever change..."

Count Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
(Marquis de Sade)

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

1 posted 1999-11-25 11:08 PM

Dream....one word is all I can say...WOW!!!!

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 1999-11-26 12:11 PM

I like your way with words. Free verse is YOU, Scott.

Christopher

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-02

Posts 8296
Purgatorial Incarceration

3 posted 1999-11-26 03:55 AM

I have to echo the "WOW"
I also agree with you. Despair is better served when you can commiserate with those of like mind and experience. It helps provide new views and calms the deepening of despair that loneliness brings.
Awesome brother!

DreamEvil
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

4 posted 1999-11-26 09:41 PM

It must be the title.

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Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©
-------------------------------------------------------
"Either kill me or take me as I am,
because I'll be damned if I ever change..."

Count Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
(Marquis de Sade)

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

5 posted 1999-11-26 10:18 PM

Or perhaps it could be the poem! Very well done Dream. You certainly captured the essence of despair. You are a talented writer.

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Denise

Cinderella
Member

since 1999-06-23

Posts 152
Arizona

6 posted 1999-11-28 10:08 PM

Well done....

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