This was a poem my friend wrote and I thought it was really great. So I made this video of me doing a reading of her poem. She is also the one in all of the pictures. The written version of her poem is below. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
The Darkness Within
There is darkness in everyone
Sometimes you see it
Sometimes you don’t
Sometimes people use it to hurt others
Sometimes they fight it
But a lot of the time
It consumes you
You get to a point where pain doesn’t hurt
Even when it should
You get to a point where you are sad beyond return
Where happiness just doesn’t exist anymore
Where you have been hurt and used
Broken and beaten
So much that you try to run away
But you drop the light and everything gets dark
You get so lost
And the Darkness just takes over
You have no control over it
You lose the fight
There is no way back when you have been consumed
You just lay there
Lost and forgotten
Hoping for someone to come in to the darkness
Someone strong enough to fight
To bring you a Little light so you can see
So you’re not so lost
And maybe
Just maybe
Strong enough to pull you out of the darkness
To bring you happiness
To bring you light
For you to live in the light
Until they weaken like always
And you slip back into the darkness
It’s very unlikely that they won’t weaken
That they will stay strong
That they can keep you happy
To keep you out of the darkness
But if you do get someone that strong
You’re going to be happy forever
Unlike most who stay trapped in the darkness
Never so lucky to get the strong one
To pull them out.
-Anna M. Rodriguez
There is darkness in everyone
Sometimes you see it
Sometimes you don’t
Sometimes people use it to hurt others
Sometimes they fight it
But a lot of the time
It consumes you
You get to a point where pain doesn’t hurt
Even when it should
You get to a point where you are sad beyond return
Where happiness just doesn’t exist anymore
Where you have been hurt and used
Broken and beaten
So much that you try to run away
But you drop the light and everything gets dark
You get so lost
And the Darkness just takes over
You have no control over it
You lose the fight
There is no way back when you have been consumed
You just lay there
Lost and forgotten
Hoping for someone to come in to the darkness
Someone strong enough to fight
To bring you a Little light so you can see
So you’re not so lost
And maybe
Just maybe
Strong enough to pull you out of the darkness
To bring you happiness
To bring you light
For you to live in the light
Until they weaken like always
And you slip back into the darkness
It’s very unlikely that they won’t weaken
That they will stay strong
That they can keep you happy
To keep you out of the darkness
But if you do get someone that strong
You’re going to be happy forever
Unlike most who stay trapped in the darkness
Never so lucky to get the strong one
To pull them out.
-Anna M. Rodriguez