Darkness Seeped Poem by Casey Gochnour

Sinking darkness, a life so obscene,
Demise ending, new slate so clean.
Crystal rain as they realize they knew,
He just didn’t know who to go to.

They stared, they laughed, they poked at his eye,
Shivering, screaming, he gave his final goodbye.
They hadn’t seen, they hadn’t guessed,
The sign was sticking out from his chest.

Crimson fell from his brow to his hand,
The splatters fell like sifted sand.
They thought the blade had killed him,
But little do they know.

Their words were the dagger, the blade in his skin,
It stuck deep, severing organs within.
Most importantly, his heart, which they hadn’t known to be gentle,
Now marked down as a boy who ended up mental.

Sane beyond measure, just out of patience and time,
He asked for love and smiles, but dropped like a dime.
They didn’t want him, they didn’t want his kind,
He was something out there you couldn’t find.

He tried to step out, he tried to make a sound,
But his soul was held down, with words forever bound.
And without word, forced upon thorns to be crowned,
A king, but no king of anything,
The leader of their sympathy.

For now they are filled with regret,
At least he’d hope to believe it.
He’d hoped to spread a message by giving his life,
But all they remembered was the blood of the knife.

I want to be gone, I want to be dead,
Those were the last words he had said,
And if anyone had looked at the things he read,
The things he wrote,
He wouldn’t have been found like that in his bed.