Darkness Abounds Poem by Jennifer Batch

Darkness abounds filling the night with deepened sorrow
Darkness abounds filling the heart with empty longing
Darkness abounds filling the soul with a cold, icy blackness
Darkness abounds bringing with it a desire for absolution
Bringing with it such a somber mood of melancholy
Stirring the soul within, offering up a sweet abundant array of music
Odd the quiet disillusionment of warmth and comfort that it brings
Darkness abounds and the night is filled with an ever so deepening desire
Desire to quell the distant voices of a haunted past
Voices beckoning to join them in the maddening chaos
Chaos swirling like a storm upon open turbulent waters
Laying in wait to claim the tormented soul
Dragging it down to the coldest blackness in the depths of despair
Bringing a still, quiet, calming comfort
Odd the quiet disillusionment of warmth and comfort that it brings
As Darkness abounds bringing with it such a somber mood of melancholy