Dark Poetry Archive

The house on the corner of Failure and Misery is falling apart. The old foundation is crumpling, the paint is chipped and falling off the half rotten oak frame. The house stank with the foul stench of age and the stale air within. The house creaks hauntingly as the mercilous...Read more

I peer through a looking glass, only to see the reflection of the things that were; things that all have been nothing but failure. A small voice beside me says “Look again!” I looked , and observed this time, a great black beast, the rage and anger of the years...Read more

Looking all around, nothing making a sound, All my joy is waning, and my gladness draining. The happiness I once held dear, flees as hopelessness comes near. People turn their backs on me, As they walk away all I see, Is another loss, another failure, just another mistake, leaving me...Read more

Darkness engulfs all, as the light from a small heart, flickers it’s last beat. A joy now forever gone. Sorrow, grief, pain, not an eternal torment. Solitude and perpetual anguish, sadness without end.Read more

All the joy in the world, for now has passed away. Sadness lingers, in memory of those happy times. The days we used to share, the laughs that carried us on, the long talks, and happy walks, have all now died away. all that now remains, is to think of...Read more

Love, An enchanting thing, So beautiful and innocent, As it puts on its mask, its charade, To hide its hideousness. It, takes you calmly, Only to chew you up and spit you back out, Hurt, depressed, and unknowing of what to do with yourself. Now an injured soul with nothing...Read more