Insanity

by ka67

Published April 1, 2013

16+ Language Violence

In Poetry

Warning: This work has been rated 16+ for language and violence.

Voices in me now
Sounds in me forever
Will light find me?


Voices....They don't come on fast do they?
Mine did not
Still, slowly I could feel the searing agony as I fought a part of myself
Whispers that had no source and silent screams hidden behind a smile

So long, I fought their whispers and the evil I felt brewing inside me
Maybe a way out...help and someone to lead me through...
It was their whispers and their goading, the begs that told me to keep them 
Not to put them into a box in the back of my mind, let them fade into oblivion with ignored whispers

All through this I could feel the seperation
Sending me into an insane desperation for something to help
It was like a poisonious gas on my skin
settling into my pores with a sting
Inside I was screaming at the faces of the people I used to understand

The voices clouded my head with thoughts
Dripping with blood and things begging to be heard, to be understood
My moans of pure agony did nothing to stop the onslaught of things I could hear
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I stared at the blade sitting on the counter as their voices urged me on
Take it, take it, take it.Hold it in your hand
Pull the tip down your skin and let the blood leave a scream down your arm
Leave a stain...Drain your pain..

My hand ached to form a fist around the hilt and stand in the middle of the bare room
Fell my screams and my pain ebb a little...

Blocking light
Listen to the voices
Rip yourself

The agony of fighting only made the headaches worse
Still I took no medication
Poison,they had whispered to me
Thicking the blood flowing through my arms, making me ill and them silent

Whispering in me
Hatred flowing
They were my friends

Release was forged
Only through the time I spent to press the knife to my arm and let it weep

Beautiful crimson
Claim me as your own,please
Show me the words now
I stared at the exposed muscles on my thin arm
Felt the hunger in my stomach
Starvation, the professionals would call it
Help is my dying scream
Healthy is my past, my future is now


Depression is me
Hunger and pain are equal
Exposed truths

The fight was lost to those who whispered to me in many voices with one core
Unknown to me
The only comfort to me
No-one may listen


Silent screams in the night as my dreams give my death in vivid colors
Wake up to whispers
Wishing for silent shadows
Insanity is a curse for all

And in one day, it was all so overwhelming
I wanted to let my head implode
To snap my neck to pieces
Bash in my skull
Watch blood make a lake around me...and smile

Suicide for me
Lead me in darkness
Show me paradise

My secrets exposed to the world was an ease on the black hole of my heart

Shell of myself
My pyschy is all fucked
My heart is gone

Smother them alone
Drowning forever and now
My past broken

Drown in your
pool of pure blood and die
They had told me then

Comments & reviews · 4
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ivyLeonora
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ivyLeonora wrote a review Review · May 26, 2013

WoW. That's what i thought about your poem. The whole thing brought me into a different world. i felt trapped in myself, just reading it. This poem is dripping with EFFECTIVE writing techniques and i genuinely, REALLY enjoy your writing. Thank you for sharing this. i particularly liked two parts.
the oxymoron: "silent screams"
-and this part: "Whispers that had no source and silent screams hidden behind a smile"
the phrase really ticke a sense inside me. it makes the reader wonder. i think thats what you mastered, the art of making the reader wonder.

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Aley
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Aley wrote a review Review · Apr 28, 2013

This poem has no periods. That really bothers me. It's like someone just stole them all. I really like periods. They tell me, take a breath, that was a complete thought and it is done. Now move on with that complete thought and catch the next one. Instead, you have random capitalized words which appear to mimic where sentences start. For me, this is already too late. I can't go Oh, that was capitalized and then pause, I have already read the word when I see it, so this becomes one run on huge breath aside from your punctuations that are there.

The italics are another thing that bother me. First, you have bold, then you have italics. I don't think the italics are needed, and I don't think the bold is needed either. Personally, I'd use "these" and not even bother to separate the italicized parts of the poem from the parts that are not.

Lastly about the structure, some of your lines are really long, so I would suggest considering breaking them up in unique places that will create interest for the reader. For example, take "My secrets exposed to the world was an ease on the black hole of my heart" and break it up into
"My secrets exposed
to the world was an ease on
the black hole of
my heart"

Now you have some different interpretations that you can play with, The first line of that edit creates Exposed to actually be exposed to the whiteness of the page, the space. Also, ease, is resting against on as a cushion between it and the space
The black hole of what? Well that is creating interest in breaking up the preposition from it's noun phrase and continuing the eye reading downwards. Then leaving 'my heart' alone, can be read as "oh my aching heart" or a plea for it to come back. The heart is important in this poem, so giving it a separate line emphasizes that importance.

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SushiSashimi333
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SushiSashimi333 commented Comment · Apr 1, 2013

This made me worry, a lot. I think the blood screaming down one's arm was pretty well written shows that I guess causing pain is painful, like, that you know it only hurts but you do it anyways. I guess, never mind, too hard to explain.

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noelsugarcube
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noelsugarcube wrote a review Review · Apr 1, 2013

This is a very interesting poem. For starters, word choice made my skin crawl (yeah, I get freaked at the smallest things) and it was very descriptive of the scene. So as for nick-picking, you had some words spelled wrong; such as "implodde". Nothing too major, but even so.... This topic makes me feel sad though, like, I bet some people actually think this. =(

ka67 replied · Apr 1, 2013

Yea,it is realistic but I did not have time to accurately place it. thank you,and Ill be sure to fix those.

Oh yeah, just as a random note, this really, really reminds me of some songs from my current fav visual-kei band, The gazette. check em out on utube, and if you want, i'll send you a url of the songs this reminds me of. Keep up the good work!



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