In the Dark

in #poetry5 years ago



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Rain darkens everything:


Each drop
A black grain of misery

Holding
All the world’s pain
And none of its sympathy;

...

And it’s pouring again
Beating a rhapsody

A tin pan cacophony

Down narrow alleyways
And lanes that never end

Except at waves

Where they blur into a haze
Of sky and lake

And disappear in a turbid wake.

...

Of windless drizzle
And matters dark and dismal
I write

Of improbable men
Burdened with sins

Of mundane crimes
Too trite to recite

All close in tonight

Remind me
What I’ve been
And how little it means

This love
I can’t requite.

...

Sadly, for me,
Hope has dwindled
To a sad train whistle

Borne on the rain
From far away;

...

So, here's to us—

For all the times
I tried to make amends
But failed

And all the ways
I went astray

I’m here
In a dirge of fog and rain
Abandoned
In a world black and gray,

Alone again,
Numb and flustered,

Still trying to find a way
Through the pain I've suffered.



© 2019, John J Geddes. All rights reserved



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Both beautiful and sad.

as is life :) Thank you, @wandrnrose7

I feel so lonely suddenly 🙁

sorry about that :) That's how I feel when I read Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Your words make me want to try to write again.
Thank you

I'm glad - I know that feeling - it happens to me with TS Eliot's poetry - I can enjoy it briefly but then I have to write myself while I'm in that peaceful place

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