Underground_Network
January 10th, 2010, 06:30 PM
For sixteen years
I found myself trapped in darkness,
With no way out.
I was locked in a steel cage of despair,
With no way out,
And no purpose,
No light.
I had nothing to hold onto,
Nothing to pursue
Nothing to love
Nothing to hold dear
To my heart that slowed it's rhythm
With each and every day
Of isolation and despair.
But after sixteen years of horror,
Sixteen years of sight deprivation
And silence within darkness,
I heard a voice and saw a luminous light
In the distance.
At first it was an inaudible whisper,
But as I wandered further through the darkness
The voice grew louder and the light,
It grew brighter.
Hope, I'd found hope!
Or so I'd thought.
After days of walking
On two legs barely strong enough
To keep my aching body upright
I finally reached the end of my path
And found a solid gray wall
That had no exits,
No escape.
The light remained on the distant horizon,
The voice was loud now
And it shouted "I'm here to save you"
Every so often,
But I could not trace its origin.
It was hope, but it was unreachable,
An unattainable destiny.
Everyday I reached forward and grasped into the air
Hoping to pull light into my world,
Hoping to finally escape the darkness.
And then one day, I reached out
And felt something, I tugged at it
And pulled it toward me!
Was it light? It couldn't be!
And it wasn't.
It was a dead light bulb.
Just another way of taunting me,
And furthering my misery.
A light bulb with no filament,
To add to my collection of gallimaufry,
Things and nonthings that mean nothing
And do nothing but further my misery.
Damn that day when I thought the darkness was dead.
Damn that day when I saw a luminous light,
A luminous lie.
Damn that day when I heard a voice
And dared to grab onto a sliver of hope.
Damn that day
That I thought I'd escape the darkness.
Because damn it all,
I'm stuck here,
Fucked here,
For eternity.
Darkness enshrouds my every being,
I am one with darkness
And there is no escaping it.
I am purposeless,
I am misguided
But I am where I belong:
Isolated in despair.
I found myself trapped in darkness,
With no way out.
I was locked in a steel cage of despair,
With no way out,
And no purpose,
No light.
I had nothing to hold onto,
Nothing to pursue
Nothing to love
Nothing to hold dear
To my heart that slowed it's rhythm
With each and every day
Of isolation and despair.
But after sixteen years of horror,
Sixteen years of sight deprivation
And silence within darkness,
I heard a voice and saw a luminous light
In the distance.
At first it was an inaudible whisper,
But as I wandered further through the darkness
The voice grew louder and the light,
It grew brighter.
Hope, I'd found hope!
Or so I'd thought.
After days of walking
On two legs barely strong enough
To keep my aching body upright
I finally reached the end of my path
And found a solid gray wall
That had no exits,
No escape.
The light remained on the distant horizon,
The voice was loud now
And it shouted "I'm here to save you"
Every so often,
But I could not trace its origin.
It was hope, but it was unreachable,
An unattainable destiny.
Everyday I reached forward and grasped into the air
Hoping to pull light into my world,
Hoping to finally escape the darkness.
And then one day, I reached out
And felt something, I tugged at it
And pulled it toward me!
Was it light? It couldn't be!
And it wasn't.
It was a dead light bulb.
Just another way of taunting me,
And furthering my misery.
A light bulb with no filament,
To add to my collection of gallimaufry,
Things and nonthings that mean nothing
And do nothing but further my misery.
Damn that day when I thought the darkness was dead.
Damn that day when I saw a luminous light,
A luminous lie.
Damn that day when I heard a voice
And dared to grab onto a sliver of hope.
Damn that day
That I thought I'd escape the darkness.
Because damn it all,
I'm stuck here,
Fucked here,
For eternity.
Darkness enshrouds my every being,
I am one with darkness
And there is no escaping it.
I am purposeless,
I am misguided
But I am where I belong:
Isolated in despair.