DARKNESS POEMS
ROLLER
I took a roller to
my life’s story
so every scene
could fade to gray
dark gray, light gray
forget the fifty
when it comes
to gray there
are but
two shades only
everything just
a reconfiguring
of life’s single binary:
your
triumphant humanity
of the good, truth and
beauty
versus mine of failure
self-deception and pain
***
LAST POEM
they tried
to save
my last poem
but it
did not
want
to be saved
tried
to escape
but was caught
and burnt
for being
insufferable
(I too
feeling
the
glorious
horror
of
fire
as it
went up in flames)
***
DARKNESS POEM
I stumbled into a deep
and terrible darkness
most people
cannot fathom
and yet it is there
a darkness fit
for Styx or
the Stygian premise
that is Tartarus
down through the innermost
regions of Hades to
that place where
evil is singularity
rages
out of control
rips the black wings off ravens
to colour the sky as is befitting
with their
blood
and black feathers
the sky that is
perfect as
expression
of hopelessness
and pain
***
TAKE
take everything you gave me
all the good, the bad
and the really bad
strip me down to nothingness
where there is nothing to
say, nothing to feel
no words to utter
just the
revelation
of a
nihilism
that nothing can answer
***
Mr 9mm
Mr 9mm sidled up to me
started to speak
at point blank
range
enunciated all
the key points of difference
between myself
and the world
when it came to
matters of
belief, philosophy and ideology
no gainsaying that position
countering that argument
***
ZERO PEOPLE
they are the
zero happiness ones
God created them so
you might feel good
about yourself
easy now to
think
there but
for the grace
go I
truth being
they don’t really suffer
after you
have drawn
the important life
lesson about
being grateful
you are
quite at liberty to
dispose of them
gently, euphemistically,
or, as is
way more fun,
with flamethrowers, icepicks,
chainsaws or sawn-off shotguns
for when it comes
to any reasonable definition
of humanity
they are
hardly to be
considered people
are more like those old
clunky cathode-tube androids
from that low-tec science fiction
film and Tv from
the 1950s
born into lives
without love
it is
really a species
of highest, most
caring mercy
to end their suffering
any way you like
