Living In The Dark
House of solitude,
Rooms of greed and jealousy,
Keeping vile secrets.
Hands tainted with blood,
A rotten smell fills the air.
Sense of guilt-flashing.
Stress, pressure, envy,
Love, lust, obsession, sadness,
Misunderstandings.
Jumbled emotions,
All led to this point in time,
A time of mistakes.
With a sharpened knife,
And a loaded gun-I came:
Left empty-handed.
Drowning in despair,
Wallowing is self-hatred.
Accepting myself.
Sinning and sinning,
Freeing souls, one; another...
From hollow vessels...
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3rd Annual Biggest Competition Ever - 2018
PoetryWelcome to the Poets Pub 3rd Annual Biggest Competition Ever. This year it will be an eight (8) week gauntlet style poetry competition, with a new poetry prompt every week and a winner announced each week. All winners will be eligible for our Poet...