Follow Into The Night
Elizabeth Agiantritis
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Copyright 2009 Elizabeth Agiantritis
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A Life in Darkness: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1860
Thoughts…: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/5506
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Hell and the Devil: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/5790
My Happily Ever After: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/5886
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If it were but words
That dangled themselves before me,
Would I not still have the strength to stand?
Or do words too
Have the power to make me tremble before them?
Is shelter an option?
Or is there no shelter from the harshness of a cruel word?
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Dark is the night,
Harsh are your words,
Cruel are your intentions.
Turn not from me now,
For I have already seen
The very essence of your being,
Hide not in the shadows,
For I do but know well
Your heart and soul and all that is you.
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Look not at me
With your eyes,
But see me with your heart.
Touch me not
With your fingertips,
But embrace me in your arms.
Know not me
By the way I appear to you,
But perceive me with your emotions.
Speak not to me
With words,
But find me in dreams.
I can not be seen in this world
So seek me in another.
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The sky was covered with darkness
As it had been for years,
Because of the unwritten law
That the sun must not shine,
That there must be no light.
But if you should carefully look
You would be able to see something red
Trickling through the streets
And if you look even closer
You would see that it is blood.
Poem of the Dead
Monday is a day for sleeping
Tuesday is the same
Wednesday does not differ
Thursday is rather alike
Friday is very close
Saturday comes to change nothing
And Sunday
I am still asleep.
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Poet by day
And poet by night,
Poet among the masses.
I shall forever cry for the poet among the masses.
The one that differs,
Yet is never noticed,
The one that constantly wanders
Among the blood stained streets.
Darkness Within Us
Darkness within us
Death to us all
For we are not worthy of life.
Let our screams break the silence,
Let our blood feed the earth,
Let our brains fill the holes,
Let our hearts fertilise the earth,
Let our souls burn in Hell,
Let us suffer.
Death to us all.
Let us not see the light of another day.
Death to us all.
I Want to Die
If I had blood on my hands
You would know
What I had done.
Yet I wonder
If you would truly understand,
For I have deprived someone of their most important right,
The right of life.
Do you really understand
The harm that I have done?
One is many.
But if you kill me
They will not come back again,
They are gone forever.
Although I say that,
I know I must go.
Goodbye...
Mistaken Betrayal
That tragic moment
When you said:
'I love you',
I cried.
I cried for I knew
That for what I had done
I would loose your love forever.
Desperate to gain your love
I was blinded by jealousy
And acted on it.
I made a terrible mistake
And then
As I desperately tried to explain
I heard a knocking at the door
And then I knew,
I really knew
That the end was soon to come.
The knocking sounded so slow,
Yet it was so fast,
For my ears were playing tricks on me
By the order of my mind.
And now,
Before your startled eyes, which to me spell out the end,
Before the laws of justice, which to me mean the end,
I cry
And my tears burn me.
Cemetery
Here, I stand
Lost for words
Before the sight of Death.
There is no living human being
And since a soul can not be captured
I am left with disintegrating bodies,
Skin, flesh, bones and a putrid stench.
Six feet underground
Hidden from living eyes.
Resting, would be my natural thought,
But my macabre thought
Shall lead me to believe
That they are planning to escape
And I believe I shall be their first victim.
Ah, yes.
Now I clearly remember,
It was Monday, in December.
It was the first time
I visited a cemetery.
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In the valley of darkness
And the kingdom of hate
Live all men.
There is no sun in the morning
And no moon at night.
Nothing is heard
Other than the trickling of blood,
And no words are spoken
Other than the curses of those who truly hate.
The others shall be
The forever prisoners,
The forever blind that can see.
What I did
I looked in the mirror
And I wondered who I was looking at,
Yet it was only the reflection of me.
I looked at my hands
And I thought that hands could do so much good,
Yet mine only...
I looked at my feet
And thought that children like to run and play
Yet I used mine only to run away.
I looked at my mouth
And thought that so many people use their mouths to laugh
Yet mine was never opened for such use.
I saw blood
Many times,
Yet every time it scared me.
I heard crying
Many times,
Yet every time it made me go mad.
I felt no guilt
For what I had done,
Yet I always had nightmares.
I created so many widows and orphans
Yet I continued as if I didn't care.
I needed to survive,
So that it what I did.
No
one understood me,
Yet
every condemned me.
That
is my story,
And
now I am dead.
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Although you plan to murder
You accidentally kill.
Some people you target
And make certain of their death,
But others are mere victims
And still lose their lives.
For we are all pawns
In the great game that you play.
Oh, Lord!
Why do you hate us this way?
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I saw perhaps a killer,
A killer in your ways,
It seems I've been looking at a murderer
All of these days.
I know not how you started,
I know no how you will end,
All I know is of the danger
That lurks at every bend.
You seem to be so normal,
Even angelic from time to time,
But we both know what horrors
You hide in your catastrophic mind.
It seems so strange,
Ironic too
For both me and you,
That certainty should come to my mind
Just as you set upon taking my life
While you surprisingly find
Nothing but the devil in me
Just as you die from my treacherous hand.
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Look to the sky,
Sorrow for me,
Sorrow for you,
For all that we once knew.
My eyes do tear
And yours do too
Having said goodbye to all that we knew.
Look not to the past,
It will not return.
Look into the future,
It is to come.
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Could it be
That I am lost
In a world of missed opportunities,
Caught in a storm of raging emotions,
Trapped within the boundaries of my own mortal coil.
Every waking moment I do pray
That I may break free,
And like a bird soar high,
Higher still, until Heaven I reach.
An Ode To Blood
Coursing through our veins
Sometimes as cold as ice
And sometimes fiery hot
But always radiating life.
Red as a poppy in a field
Or lava exploding from a volcano within.
Bitter as iron
But sweet as honey too.
As it flows, so does life too
And when it flows no more, so does life cease too.
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Thoughts that took me nowhere,
Paths that ended at the door of despair
And whispers on the wind that taunted mine ears
All did drag me to the ground
And crumble my being to dust.
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The memories of leaves
That to the ground fell,
The echoes of long forgotten
Days in the sun,
Reminders of times gone by,
Haunting each waking moment
And stealing precious moments
From a now uncertain future.
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Beneath a pale moon
We plot and scheme,
Our own demise we do plan
With each action and inaction,
With each pointless word and each silence,
With hope and despair.