A broken image <br />A corpse decayed <br />A savage attack <br />An ending remade <br />The following story <br />Belongs to that <br />Of the book of horrors <br />Of spiders and bats <br />Of ghoulish demands <br />From beyond the grave <br />Of total destruction <br />Of scarlet plagues <br />This story begins <br />A bit different than most <br />A story a bit more complicated <br />Than demons and ghosts <br />A creature second <br />To the devil alone <br />A sorcerer <br />Of the unknown <br />A master of the arts <br />Of torture and obstruction <br />A demon that’s followed <br />By nothing but destruction <br />He haunts my mind <br />And plots my end <br />He secretly opens <br />The wounds that mend <br />My only fear <br />My greatest flaw <br />But sadly its not <br />My fault at all <br />I lose my control <br />And most of my mind <br />I search for hours <br />But sadly I’m blind <br />I see nothing but sadness <br />And broken dreams <br />My shattered soul <br />And piercing screams <br />The stitches on <br />My broken heart <br />The patch and zipper <br />That unites the two parts <br />Stronger than what <br />I’ve always seemed <br />My mind is leaking <br />My twisted dreams <br />Creating an ocean <br />Of all of my tears <br />To drown the world <br />And show it my fears <br />And for the millions and millions <br />Of beautiful stars <br />Each one could represent <br />My scars <br />But I have many options <br />In sense of escape <br />I could easily end <br />This retched life that I hate <br />I could yank out my teeth <br />One at a time <br />I could slit both my wrists <br />In a victimless crime <br />Drown myself <br />Or leap from a tower <br />Eat a pound of salt <br />And die in less than an hour <br />I could hang myself <br />Up off of a tree <br />But a simple bullet... <br />Just seems much too easy <br />The world will not <br />Get off that easy <br />I will show everyone <br />What is left inside of me <br />My genius and sorrow <br />Could horribly combine <br />Such a horrid being <br />Even the devil would cry<br /><br />Ryan Joseph Holder<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oblivion-8/
