Friday, April 3, 2015

A Living Nightmare

So we were assigned to write a Gothic poem in English class last week and this is what I came up with, I hope you guys like it!



As I lay alone one night
I couldn’t help but ponder
at how one little blunder
could crumble all the light -

All the light life once held
and everything of the past
seems almost like a dream-
a dream you wish would come to no end

But one dream kept haunting my every thought
a dream that has kept me up late thinking-
a dream about a single night
of misery, death, and fraud

And the soul within me keeps shrieking
calling out for its helpless ache has prevailed once more
“Save me!” it screamed “ save me from this throe!”
“awake me from this insanity!” it said withering

But nothing but a gust of wind
answered its desperate calls
And as the night was fading away
the figure of a ghost appeared at the door

The ghost kept approaching my sprawled figure
I tried to run, to hide, but it was too late
for the dark figure I feared
was standing before my fidgeting eyes

“ I have come to ease your pain and misery”
he said so faintly as he approached even more
“come with me” he said, as he held my hands ever so gently
and for once I knew my sleepless nights would come to an end


for this ghost before me
who had once haunted me on endless nights
was granting my soul its desperate wish-
a wish of never existing any more


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