Dark Poems | Examples of Dark Poetry

I'm trapped inside a maze that's my own head I don't know if I'd rather find a way out or be dead Twists and turns, memories that burn Burn the perfect picture of someone I thought I knew I'm...Read the rest...

Demon hauls Silent Loud screams Unheard screams Echoes of a silent dark room My demons Lark Inside my dark mind Trapped in my sanity Piercing screams Seeking refuge Refuge from my fears These demons Never let it rest I'm loosing Loosing it all Already evident From these aching...Read the rest...

In this cell is where it all grows The fear The hope The lost The dream The success The grace The signature The fall The race The plan It all grows here Inside you Inside me Inside us The balance shifts The weight heavy The cross awaits Time the judgement In this place We are...Read the rest...

Licking my wounds. Recovering from the pain. Is it supposed to feel this way? Empty, cold, and dejected. Ashamed of not enjoying it. Radiating heat filling me up from my pelvic floor. Somehow, I am wanting more. More of the pain without it there’s no...Read the rest...

It’s like being hit by a meteor Where there’s no tomorrow It is like doomsday, really Where everything is ugly And absolutely nothing is pretty I just received the bad news That my sister-in-law had died Suddenly and extemporaneously Without being sick tremendously I...Read the rest...

Let me introduce myself My name is suicide I live in the shadows Just at the back of your mind You’ll probably never meet me Sometimes I'm on posters Usually in your doctor’s waiting room You may glance at me Put me to...Read the rest...

I dreamt only of green alkanet. One by one, I'd see another, mutilate my view, talking in tongues of five, as they destroy the delicate balance, between this world and new. ...Read the rest...

i was never her favorite. what if she despises me and she believes i’m just another person who will go away and she’ll never see again, who she never loved even though i love her? and it hurts...Read the rest...

Holding myself not to fall apart, I’m chauffeured by Dawn’s cart, Each day with its fight, It’s a tenacious walk into light. A mysterious hand strives to reach for me, I sail on a turbulent sea, It’s a world in the...Read the rest...

My tendency to slip into the dark- a matter you have now begun to press. In realms of time and pain, I ache no less; you undervalue still, its lasting mark. So see...Read the rest...

As I succumb to the wounds you've inflicted gasping for air, for life, eyes bloodshot, cheeks wet, Will you love me then? My cold, bloodied body will lay lifeless in your bed, my crimson seeping into the sheets. What will you...Read the rest...

Beauty hides beneath open yourself up to it but beware its thorns...Read the rest...

Fear not the questions of life Fear not the answers unknown For the knowledge will come for all or for some If you seek it on your own Fear not the darkness to come Fear not the...Read the rest...

You apologize over and over, Yet do it again cold shoulder. In church every Sunday saying you’re a “righteous” man, But at home you’re the devil’s right hand man. It’s crazy how your so smart and calculated with...Read the rest...

Zounds! longing for a merciful descent into the terminal ground where smoky eyes semi-watch streams of semi-(dis)information exhaled from smoking brains on a mission to search & deconstruct ticking clocks taunt timely bombs lost in purple blobs of orange haze awaiting purging deluges sprinkled with white bolts of blinding hell the raving raven's feathers flicker while flippant tentacles grope...Read the rest...