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Two Poems from our Dark Poems, Depressing Poems, Death Poetry Collection

 
 
A SLAVE
   
Author: Meta Roddy
   
Poem:
A SLAVE
   
  Innocently led away from his domain
Knowing he’d never see familiarity again

With such poignant eloquence
Heart-wrenching to see
An African slave trader seized him
Leading him to assured doom.

His hands fixed behind his back
He bore with singular grace

Whipped and rebuked
For anything he said, or even if he moved
Impounded in a tiny cage
Many other’s with him going to the same destiny

He bore it with firm dignity
For the next couple weeks, he was fed putrid food

Packed onto a ship where he lived on his back.
Infested and foul
Everything begins to stink
Not so many breathing

People dead,
Transported to a new world with stacks of rotting people!

When he got to the new earth
He was put into storage,
Sold into slavery
Decided he’d never see his homeland in his own day.
   
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ANGELS IN THE SNOW
   
Author: Ryan Mccloskey
   
Poem: ANGELS IN THE SNOW
   

We are born innocent and free.
Our skin is clean, free from scars, untouched by evil and shielded by a halo of good.
Fighting the currents of life we struggle to swim the deep and tranquil sea.
We rejoice in what was once loved and suffocate in what is now lost.

We believe in what we can see, perceive what is unknown, and fear the difference.
The rhythm of life permeates ignorance; Sung solely by a chorus of black robes.
Our destination is consternation.
We tip toe to an infinite edge with no view, no horizon, and no promise.

Struggling for truth we incessantly seek this fictional providence.
Our utopia has been coined and contracted by the same amoral evils that strangle us all.
We are medicated by a prescribed euphoria.
We blissfully ignore the writing behind the lines.
With every escape we fall deeper into the complex web of dictation.

We are victim to what we obtained too cheaply and esteemed to lightly.
Our glass hearts, once unbreakable are now mere sacrifices.
Were all searching for that one jagged piece of the puzzle
we search endlessly for an end to this paranoid delusion ironically called life.
Search hard we do, but find we shall not.

Every waking moment is another step closer to freedom.
The black hole of uncertain freedom we shall see in death.
One day I will soar the greatest of heights
One day, one way
No longer alone
I am home.
 
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