There are times when I’m inconsolable
when the world around me becomes too much
and my demons come out to feast on me again
There are times when I’m hopeless
when I’m too lost to return home
and I don’t need your comforting touch
I just need to be left alone to sit quietly in the dark
Don’t offer me a friendly hand
nor a tender embrace of love
Just let me surround myself with shadows
and let my troubles eat me whole
Don’t try to save me when I can’t be saved
and keep your tender words for another day
a day when the tides of my heart have changed
and my soul flows the other way
But until that time remember that I love you
and that you’re still the keeper of my heart
but for the moment love is not my friend
and your tender touch and sweetest smile
are like poison to my aching soul
So let me be
Let me sit alone in the dark
Let me find comfort in forgotten lusts
Let me bandage my heart with solitude
and dry my tears with time
I know that you understand
and I pray that you’ll return
Because I long for when I can emerge from these shadows
and once again cherish the smile glistening
across your sweet, tender face
All i really have to say is wow, I felt every word and I couldn't better describe how i always feel. I am a new comer to your site and there is not a dought in my mind inwhich i wouldn't come back on a regular basis. I will deffinetly come back.
……wow raven! great work. i really love this poem. it reminds me of myself and how i feel when at times. anyway its really awsome raven 🙂
Wow! It's entirely dark and so beautiful. Good work. I just love it.
raven, ur poem has helped me so much, thank u for sharing ur gifts with the world. i saw so much of myself in this poem and one day i hope i can post some of my poetry onlne and have someone be changed b/c of it.
asome,i love it
your poem is completely relatable and real.
My chest constricted when I read this poem…that tells you alot
It is one of the most brilliant peices I have ever read. This poem is so close to what I feel right now. I am going to get my friend to read it maybe he will understand what I go through and all. Sometimes this is how I feel about him so its all good. What a wonderfull poem.
I really love this poem. its ust like how i feel alot of the times!!! keep writing poems like this one!!!
It's real unlike many of the poems I have read…I am still an amateur writer, your poems are inspiring and I can relate.
awsome, i can relate to this very well it describes how i have been fealing over the past couple of months, very impresive
That was awsome truely evil and true, it makes me think. I like that, beautiful and true, dark at the same time.
i can relate this poem to my own troubles like this. it resembles what i feel too.
About the 50th time i've read this peom and it gets beter everytime. Really brilliant writing.
awsome i love ur poem its so……..i cant describe it
I am astounded at your incredible ability to analyse and explain exactly how i feel, when, try as i might, i cannot make sense of myself. Thankyou for opening my eyes with your beautiful words and helping me when noone else can. My attempts at writing poetry are fairly dismal in comparison to this i'm afraid, but i wonder if you would like to read some of it? Please reply if so.
Thankyou again
I really like this poem, I could understand it and I could emotionally relate to it, you did a fantastic job.
Monica Age 20
Salem, Oregon
great poem…it seems to say how everyone here is feeling. Your a great writing 🙂 Im crappy
I read your poems and this is my favorit one….
ok raven i can totaly relate to this poem it really touched me
Yoy have the most amazing way of explain these emotions that people feel everyday,this is probally one of the best poems i have ever come across and i felt able to relate to the words you wrote, truly amazing
I had to write this poem down and keep it in my favorite poems book because it was so touching.. great work Raven 🙂
Thanks now I can show my boyfriend how i really feel
My God!! Are you spying on me?? that relates so closely to my life i can hardly believe it. Its great keep writing
I hate to sound like everybody else, but I can realy relate to this poem.Those times where you don't want to hear or see anyone,even those you love.Well done Raven.
That was great! It sounded like something my girlfriend would write.
THAT POEM WAS VERY DEEP!IT WILL BE SOMETHING YOU WOULD WRITE TO AN EX GIRL OR BOY FRIEND YOU KNOW TRY TO GET BACK TOGETHER OR SATAY TOGETHER.
I LOVE THE POEM ITS DEEP AND DARK AND FROM THE HEART
stop taking ravens words for your own no one can understand the blood and pain another goes through.
inspiring touching and beautiful piece of work raven i would have to say your my favorite writer take care
I don't want to go on reading these poems, but i have to. Each one is more into my life than the next. These poems are making me feel, something i have not done in a long time. Keep writng, never stop.
Raven your poetry inspires me to become a better writer…poetry is the way I express what is going on with me…helps me become at peace with some of the many situations in life…you are an excellent writer and I look forward to reading more of your work…
Raven I love your work soooooo much. your poerty is the same way i feel. I love this poem. keep up the awesome writing. you inspire me soo much. thanx for all the great poems i love them. keep it up raven.
-Cass-
o my gosh!!
I love this poem because it is just like my life hiding in the dark, wants to be left alone srom all the pain i have been through, and just want to break down and cry. life isnt fair. just want to be free sometimes were i can just be free from all the damage that has happened or that will come. for me i play the violin in orchestra. its not the same when i am by my self playing my insturment. it releases stress from my life. so does reading sad poems that are related to my life. but keep up the good work. i hope that you will keep on righting more poems like this one.
thanks!!!
the pome can relat to my life cuse sometimes i just fell so alone and i want to be alone but when i dont know is there to love me.. keep up the good work
Many a time we are faced with the world's pathetic excuse for a living. For everyday many of the people like me are excluded and ridiculed. I can;t even walk out of my house without being made fun of. NO, I'm not making a hit list of the people I want to kill, and I am not a suicide lover. I just want the taunting to stop. Just as much as I have my family's word's clawing at my back, for me to stop listing to my music, for me to stop wearing my clothes, I pray to God for the people of the world to come together and love one another. This is coming from a 15 year old african american goth.
This poem is exellent!! I relate to it, and it's how I feel..
i write poetry about the same exact stuff as u do. and this poem has given me lots of thoughts and paints a visual of emotion in my head. i think i feel wut u write about in this poem excellent!!!
very nicely done. I understand what you are saying. Pleasure in solitude and tranquility in pain. Very deep, very beautiful. I write some stuff like that but i've never really written it in "poetry format" That was awesome dawg. Well take care guy, i'm out.
i really like this poem and how it tells that u cant love some one everyday of ur life some times u feel like killing the one u love and then u feel like holding on to them and never letting go keep on writing
I love this poem… Then again I love all of your poetry and work. I relate to a lot of them, and I love reading your work because it lets me know I'm not alone. That I'm not the only person that feels they way I do. Thanks for sharing with us…
When I'm inconsolable, I feel torn apart, like a steel cage wrapped around me…I want to reach out to those I love, but I know that the demons haunting me will ensnare those I love…which I would regret forever…
It's uncanny how In the Dark captured the atmosphere, emotion and power of when someone feels inconsolable
This poem is amazing. It's filled with so much emotions, passion, loneliness confusion a whole bouquet of feelings. It really touched me. Becides I think it's content is undieing, it's one of those works that keep eternity in their meaning.
i almost don't have words to describe this poem and i think too much of them could ruin its message.. but i loved it…
this is one of the best poems i have ever read!i can so realate to it so much. i can understandmy life situation now . just leave my alone and ill be ok
This poem really made me think. I really think this is what my ex-boyfriend is thinking right now. He ran away from home for I second time that I know of. He stole a car, a go-kart. He was staying with one of his ex's and had the key I presume and went in and took 30 dollars. He eventually got caught and now he's in jail. But he always told me that he loved me and that I was his favorite. He lives a life where he doesn't care about anything around him…he's like an animal who needs to be free. he doesn't want to change, and it seems like he's in the dark now, not wanting to come into the light. The sad thing is, is that I do want him to come into the light. Its where he needs to be….thank you for writing this poem. It's very much appreciated
I thought this poem related to me sooo much. I know exactly how you feel. I loved it!
I can relate to feeling that way exactly where i live im all by myself no one is like me and its rough trying to live like that being utterly alone and closing myself off to others I have love and lost many times each time hurting me more and more until i didn't think that i could keep going on like that. that life is just too cruel to keep dealing with but i learned that me being different just seperates me from all the other people who are all exactly the same thank you for putting in words how my heart and soul feel
the dark prince
i loved it i can relate to it
I love this poem its so good to hear some gothic poetry which is also about loving someone.I can relate to this poem terribly because i use to feel like that every day.Keep writting you have a really good talent
This was a really great poem i love it so much!:)