Devil's Bane Poem by Mindy Brown

the shadows and ghosts of my past haunts me,
creating this abyss inside of me,
making me want to be what i once was.

i speak not a word to the people who carry the items of death that i crave.
i hold in my urges for my next hit of the devil's bane,
and all i end up doing is avoiding the issue.

my mind is bent and twisted around the need for the killing ingredients of the devil.
so I'm left to crave the release for a moment from reality and insanity.
it calls to me like a lone wolf cries in the night for its beloved paramour.

it seems like the only deed i can do to cheat fate is to run as far away as possible,
but you get tired of running from life after you have finally lost the rose-glasses of ignorance.
i have ultimately came to the decision that that you can never hide from fate no matter how hard you try.

everyday i look at this world and it seems to be a masquerade of life as we know it.
everytime i look around all i see is lies and pettiness.
I get weary of being surrounded by these appalling characteristics of humanity.
so take my advice and hold your beloved close and you children closer,
so that they will never have to hear or see the dismal and dreary side of this world.
hold them and smother them with lies and promises of a paradise unlike one they have ever heard,
and NEVER let them go through what i have been through.

so i leave you to ponder the truth of your life and about mine in a endeavor to become to a comprehesion of another person in need of love and understanding.
in my opinion, love is the only weapon of defense in a battle with a family member.
i have not seen it done much, but i do know that is the only way to make your feelings heard.
forget beating, grounding, yelling and screaming: Just show who you love: Why you love them and why you dont want them to commit the acts they are doing.


NOTE FROM AUTHOR: i dont wish for no ones pity for being so sad or lonely,
i just wish people would apprehend the reality of poverty and what it does to a human being.


BY: mindy brown