35 Quotes About Dark-poetry

PHANTASMI know the phantom That shies away from the sunHe's a quiet prayerFrom the heartlessThe mournersThe no ones

This piece of inked paper stands a colossusA monument to a string of moments once dear;The only surviving testament to a timeWhen these background bridges remained unburned,Before they became so much unswept rubble.

You do not see the painting in the attic The maggots on skin that tear. The beauty is a trick. Narcissus - promise naught but air...'' ~ Dorian Gray

She is the light,at the end of this endless tunnel.

No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates.

You burn like a candleinside my soul,showing me a waythrough this darkness.

I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joyIn killing my favorite characters.With gleaming eyes they toyWith turmoil in every chapter.Just when they’ve got you attachedTo the character’s quirks and flawsTo their words and their demonsJust when you’ve fallen in loveWith the character’s identity—With a cruel turn of the lipThe author smirks and kills them offAnd at our gasped pleas, merely scoffs.But the author was GodAnd my favorite character was youAnd I still can’t believe You’re gone.

These colorful polaroidsAre like magical portalsLeading to places, emotions, and peopleWho had slipped into the midst of the forgotten,Into the odd ether of willful omittance.

I look up upon a sparsely starred abyssHaving wandered to this street cornerIn the middle of the nightWatching the cars and people go byWonderingIf this deep, black nothingnessIs the sum total of being human.