In a short life of writing and rhyme <br />he lived to create barely making a dime <br />Writing of life and love and requiem <br />living off cigerettes, whiskey, and opium <br /> <br />Late at night the ideas flow <br />flowing from places we'll never know <br />his body a vessel for some unknown force <br />a collaberation with an outside source <br /> <br />Egocentric excess of the darkest themes <br />designing from a muse of opium dreams <br />a darkness within inspiring his art <br />a darkness so deep, deep in his heart <br /> <br />Creating from life a life of his own <br />living 'IN LOVE' yet dying alone <br />a force from within providing the coarse <br />a life of sex and sin and the utmost remorse <br /> <br />The darkness within leading the way <br />leading his life day after day <br />unable to fight it he did what he could <br />the darkness within never quite understood <br /> <br />Apart from the world he lived his life <br />he lived it alone never taking a wife <br />a darkness within not quite understood <br />searching for answers he did what he could <br /> <br />Alone in the darkness, living in fear <br />learning to live with the voices he'd here <br />Using the voices as though his own <br />he used the words as his alone <br /> <br />Always on the move never settling down <br />he kept on travelin from town to town <br />searching for somthing not sure he'd find <br />hope for salvation in the back of his mind <br /> <br />near the end all alone he faced his fears <br />reaching a place he'd searched for for years <br />with the hand of god leading the way <br />he found the answers he learned to pray <br /> <br />A feeling within the end was near <br />no longer affraid to face his fear <br />he made his peace with god above <br />living alone, yet dying 'IN LOVE'.<br /><br />B.B. Lee<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/darkness-within-a-poets-life/
