DARKNESS

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My blackened heart has been called

To witness the death of humanity, ity, ity

By his own stupidity, ity, ity

My blackened head has been called

To the birth of a monster, ster, ster

At his mother’s side, ide, ide

My blackened soul has been called

To witness the death of our home, ome, ome

As it burns to the ground, ound, ound

My blackened sanity has been called

To witness the death of insanity, sanity, sanity

As humanity, manity, manity

Finally learns he is the reason for his own demise, mise, mise

My blackened body has been called

To witness its own death, eath, eath

As my personal Armageddon burns, burns, burns

Taking us out and away from the technoevil, evil, evil AGE

© July 2019 R Leach

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13 thoughts on “DARKNESS”

  1. Effectively conjures something, akin to a spreading virus – an interesting and original approach here…

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  3. I can’t help but visualize the speaker as standing on a mountain peak with their words echoing in the valley. I think a person would have to be profoundly blind, deaf, and mute not to see the end looming for us. It’s the secret everyone knows but nobody speaks — unless you’re the person on the mountain 😉

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  5. I LOVE THIS.

    You present such an interesting and intriguing poem, especially with the echoes. Although, I can’t help but visualize that it’s not echoes but rather the poet repeating the fragment of the word that was parted. 😀

    “My blackened heart has been called

    To witness the death of humanity, ity, ity

    By his own stupidity, ity, ity”

    Honestly, these are my favorite lines. There’s so much death in humanity in different ways of grief and loss. It metamorphoses us into different people, never the same; and it causes that emotional build-up and vulnerability as expressed in this piece. At least, that’s my personal interpretation and as with poetry, it’s all subjective. I think you used a really clever form of repetition; it keeps your readers on their feet, and as with all things in humanity and stupidity (here and there, of course), we can have short attention spans. Clearly, with this piece, you’ve kept all of our attentions and more! We are listening, poet. We are listening to your Armageddon.

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  7. Quite powerful. I found it interesting….since I have always been so interested in language to see the word “insanity” change into “sanity”. Would that it could be that easy! Just the elimination, erasure of two small letters….to change the world.

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  8. This is incredibly potent! We are no doubt living in darker times where humanity is hanging by a thread.

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