demons
Learn more about other poetry terms
The devil starts now,
Set loose, bound by its vow,
Heaven will come down, like aliens bow,
We in the low, to safety, they will tow,
what if the demons your fighting aren't just voices in your head. what if they're just you letting yourself down. hurting yourself, killing yourself..
what if the demons your fighting aren't just voices in your head. what if they're just you letting yourself down. hurting yourself, killing yourself..
There are weights on my chest,
when I try to breathe.
Heavy thoughts that I wear,
upon both of my sleeves.
And I never can tell,
just when they will leave.
These demons that prey,
i wish you would hold me
like you hold that glass bottle
like its the only thing that can comfort you,
the only thing that accepts you,
the only thing capable of keeping your demons at bay
There’s a devil kneeling at my heels
and an angel bowing low before me.
One burns bright and blinding,
the other burns strong and lasting.
Section I
I am much too forward with my words
I interrupt people while they talk
With completely unrelated pieces
I find myself awake at this hour.
I can’t sleep.
Monsters crawl across the floor.
Shadows haunt the edges of my vision.
Demons hang from the ceiling.
All I am is a shadow
A whisper of smoke in a dim room
The smell of gasoline on couches and chairs
I am the match that calls from the box
in the drawer
in the kitchen
in the home you forgot was yours
I don't want your love songs
I don't want your melody tastes
Everything was a lie and now there's no music
Only silence and emptiness
I confessed to you one morning
Long after the sun had gone down
This brain is far from empty,
For my demons lodge here too.
This body's getting heavy.
This soul's ready for the tomb.
My body is a shell.
a husk of what once was,
My mind makes lodge in hell,
A world full of doubt, skies clouded.
Roads do not seem clear, yet we still continue driving.
Through the fog, aiming towards our destination,
is it okay to become lost?
How are you?
Im fine.
Are you sure?
Im fine.
You look sad though...
Im fine.
So no cravings?
Im fine.
i walk amongst an ocean of stars in a world of shadow.
touch the reflection, obsessive perfection.
the uncertainties of my mind permeate my very step,
a constellation of faces in unfamiliar places.
“Outcasts are unwanted,” we often praise
But do we try to understand how they are living their days?
Ridiculed, taunted, just jokes to make you laugh
things to make you forget about the quiet you don’t have.
Christ within, Christ without. To the heavens I scream and shout. Inside my head I should find no doubt. But inside a bed, there it lay. Forever it wish to stay. My heart, it hopes to sway. To bring about my own dismay.
I don't know who or what you are, But I know the pain you put me through I am reminded by my mental scars Coming so close to death because of you Feelings of deep self-hatred and shame Keep overcoming my will to push through So my addictions rem
Trigger Warning: Suicide
I’m surrounded.
Shadows line my concrete walls,
Reaching out,
They pull at my knotted hair,
Outside your window
lies the hand that feeds you poison
now would be the reason
to bite the hand that feeds you
but you can’t know what you don’t know
angel exterior
but a monster inside
These demons always plague me,
They keep me in constant torment.
Where could the angels be?
They aren’t stopping my demons.
The demons only get riled,
Everyone has demons,
But mine are different.
They feed on my pain,
And play with my sanity.
They jump from shoulder to shoulder,
The letters across my back
shout the truth so urgently
so vividly that no one can deny.
The world so clearly seen from behind.
But in the front, a hollering silence
fills the void, even those of gifted ears
Click*
The light flicked
The darkness hid.
Hisss!
The cat whispered
To the cockroach In the crib,
The baby is dead,
The house is filled with holes
And no water,
I’ve been face to face with the Devil.
I have braved darkness, deep and shallows.
Above and beneath the bowls.
O! The howls!
I came a long way on this hell road, with my eyes closed,
Worst of all.
Better than the best.
Feels like I'm flying when I fall.
Will I rise to the test?
Super highs.
Deadly lows.
White lines.
White smoke.
The little girl
Could just not sleep
Because her thoughts
Were way too deep
Her mind had gone
Out for a stroll
And fallen down
there’s a woman
who wasn’t the best mother
she had depression
it was quite sad
even tried to take her life
I died to sleep
Perchance to dream
To escape this old world
With its horrors yet untold.
But, alas, I stirred
For a frightful air
Disturbed my slumber
Causing me great despair.
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 14.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none
Not much has changed, looking back, in a year
When more often than not there are days with your tears
Flooding my own and lifting the ships
That I sent my demons away to drown in;
Dear Demons,
You have resided in me for as long as I can remember.
You seem to haunt me every September.
Your claws burn me like the everlasting hellfire.
Every year you cause my small things to become dire.
they yell at you
they call you names
they say you should kill yourself already
welcome to my mind
these are my demons
they say I'm a slut, a whore, and many more
I cut because they are here
She's shoved, under theseOld archways, while this Preist, whoSpeaks in Forgottentongue, banishes dark demons,From her newly blessed body
she's barely making it through each day
there's some days she just wants to throw her life away
but nobody knows that because they dont look behind the mask
maybe if they did they would see just how much pain she is in
Her white Silhouette,Weaves through weeping, tangled trees,Of this once thrivingMarshland, as her screeching wails,Bear this man's, looming death
The grasp on her is tight
Suffocating her sanity
Hands numb
Heart still beating
Her mind? Filled with demons
Flooding her veins with tortuous thoughts
She silently screams, but no one hears
He stands in the cornerShade a shadow of black thoughts in my headDraws weights in my skin drawing out
I'd rather set myself on fire
Then listen to you anymore
I'd rather burn and scream in hot agony
Then sit in silence feeling the opposite pain within
I don't want you to think it's over
This is just the beginning
Let repetition kill the potency
Of the demons’ chant “we’re winning”
Listen just one more time
Leave me alone
Those words sharp and cruel
It's cold it's cold it's cold
I don't mind the feeling
I don't mind the frost
I've fallen into the mirror again
Eyes on me, but where have mine been
Escape this version I try to explain
Lost within the thoughts in my brain
Anticipating the end of my rope
Through my dark eyes and out of the shattered window
I see fire
An endless and chaotic fire with flames of hatred
I hear the cry of people coming to their deaths
Before you read this, know one thing; I was not myself when I wrote this, and I am not one to write so negatively.
I’ve been lost, wandering around in the dark
Silently begging for someone to come
Find me.
To lead me out of the dark woods
Shine a light to show me the path out
With a strong hand to keep me from stumbling.
I continuously shuffle the cards of life
Searching for the answer of my wife
On a rotary phone in Cleveland
But only receive a land line
From Colorado this time
So without a doubt you know
they cam e back
this time they wanted my hands
so I couldnt lay fingerprints on anything anymore
no evidence of my evil
just poison from my wrists they wanted to see
Sitting in class with my Victoria Secret perfume of Temptation and in my new letterman jacket.
I’m on the honor roll, valen victorian of my class, and engaged, not in some ostensible straitjacket.
I know the pain
Of losing someone close.
I know the pain
Of losing a family.
I know the pain
Of losing faith.
My pain has a name.
She comes in four.
I can hear him
whisper in my ear,
he calls my name,
controls me with fear.
These vile demons
running in my head,
live in my dreams
and beneath my bed.
I feel guilty.
Water
Only clear
Loose and cascading over my body
I cannot breathe
I cannot speak
Cannot
Will not open my eyes
I am drowning
Voices collide
Suffocating me
Cast away the fire
throw away the flame
are you growing tired?
feel nothing but the pain
place it on the pyre
your demons are to blame
mirrors are reminders
of the beast you cannot tame
My thoughts are killing me,
my dreams are haunting me.
My body is covered,
with hundreds of scars.
My eyes are liars,
and so is my mouth.
My body disgust me,
I'm repulsive to myself.
Last year,
Long ago,
You would not recognize me
For who I am today.
I was a Royal Bitch,
I was a Demon in human skin,
Crawling and scratching and whining
My way
To the outside world.
I glance down at my legs
and see a familiar sight
Droplets of unsure tears
gliding down my thighs
I wish that I could comprehend
the darkness that's within
I can see the demon's shadow
Stumble, trip and fall
I will arise once more
No weight may break me
No obstacle may bar me
I will overcome it all
No demon shall sway me
The sea is mighty and great
With tides threatening to consume everything
The air is misty with the ocean spray
And loud with the wave's roar
The sight is a beautiful one indeed
They're here,
And I have so much fear.
They tell me to die,
And I can't help but cry.
They hold me down,
And make me want to drown.
They love the night,
And it gives me such a fright.
Poems fall explicitly from my mouth.
Demons crawl explicitly in my head.
I'm never sure how to handle the speed at which both are produced.
I just know that I
amd the only thing
between them
Some people believe in a heaven and a hell. The place where the people with good souls live in eternal paradise. The place where those of evil are condemned to eternal punishment. But hell is empty. The devil lives among us. Sometimes you can
Liar is what I've become,
To spare the feelings of everyone.
I won't say a word,
And you won't notice.
I'll keep quiet and smile,
And all my lies are worthwhile.
I'm sick of turning to you for help,
The air is thick, stifling
My heart sinking
Stagnating, then exploding
Filling my mind with a million senseless thoughts
Somewhere amidst the chaos
Hope flickers like a small flame
Easily put out in the wind of the ghastly night.
So I lay on the cold hard floor
Staring at the silver moon dancing.
Dancing with the fading stars
Across the onyx abyss.
Voodoo priestess see the world that lives within our own,Sight is blind but chilling touch can reach within the bone.Gilded wishes pervert the mind to cheat the humble man,
I hear the screams
I hear the cries
But when I try to stop them
The voices reply,
"Darling dear….”
“You've been talking back!"
He stares at his ceiling
It's half past four
It's paranoia he's feeling
He looks at his door
No one will come
Yet, he still tries to run
Away from his demons
They scare him a ton
Turn up the radio, as high as it goes.
Drown out the echoing screams,
That tell you nothing,
But mean the world to me.
The inaudible screaming in my head,
Where the little monsters play.
Life is a journey through the woods
And I’m stuck in a bitter-sweet loop
Many times, I’ve sworn I’ll change, but
I must say that love is a disease
it can bring us to our highest so fast
but destroy us all with ease
And after that, not even a second do we last
Author's Note: I am extremely proud of this poem. I entered it into San Mateo's City Arts contest and recieved an honorable mention, and didnot have any intention, and did not follow the theme. So I hope you all enjoy this poem.
Angels and Demons are so over used.
People say you're one or the other,
People say you dress or seem like one or the other.
My years through hisghschool taught me,
Neither of these exist.
There is good.
You would call out into your restless night,
“I need an Angel that will end my fight, one that brings daybreak upon my endless night.”
But the storm raged on, unwavering.
I sit there in silence,
Alone in the dark,
Listening to the soft hum
Of the words that float around
In a familiar and gentle sound.
Staring at the empty room before me,
Wondering where I went wrong.
I don't belong in heaven,
I'm not accepted in hell,
I'm neither angel, nor demon,
I don't belongin the human realm.
I have some power, and nothing to give.
I have a life, whith nothing for which to live.
Silence falls before me,
Leaving me all alone.
Words forever trapped,
They will never be known.
I can't speak, for I don't know how,
By I can feel it all around.
The sound of the drum shakes the room,
Please help me
And make these shadows leave
Save me from the darkest street
Turn the lights back on
And I'm crying
Then I'm broken
Shattered on the floor
The mirror hides unseen faces
"What is life?
When someone has the power to take it away?
What is love?
When there will be so,so many heart breaks?
What is it? what keeps us going?
Up the endless current that we're rowing,
"A feeling of fire
Deep in our bones
I'm not the liar
With a heart of stone
But go ahead,
Call me out,
On somthing you did
Go ahead and shout
It's not like they believe you
Triggers are like demons
When the threat is there the trigger is created
Which creates my demon
But sometimes even when the threat is not directed at me it traps me
Here in the garden, kaleidoscopic.
Here where I took and ate, saccharine.
Here she was born.
Let me go
Please stop it.
My veins crepuscule.
Eyes dark
Lips dark
I open my eyes to another Hell
As I’m pulled into another restless dream.
I fight the demons though my fears swell
I fight through their torture and schemes.
I’m blinded by an explosion
Pain brings the saddest days or the happiest moments
Pain of sacrifice is more bueatiful then a childs pain turned into a starlit lotus
If you lose pain you lose focus
My brain is taking complete control
and it just won't stop.
I keep shaking all the way to my soul;
I can feel my heart drop.
My hands go over my ears,
Welcome
to a world full of monsters and empty souls.
A world where all night
you hear whispering
down the halls.
Sending you into a mindless daze
where nothing
is what it seems,
Cold, wet, and defeatedThe angel laid her hand on my shoulder"Let me show you you aren't depleted,Come with me or grow colder.This is not what you intendedI can show you the light,
I left her
Afraid scared and alone.
My guardian angel needs me.
I did not know my heart was her home.
I felt I could fight alone,
But I proved I am weak broken and a wreck.
Chocolate chastises my every thought,
addiction from something easily bought,
dagerous yet sweet, I am caught.
What waits within the wrapper will always win,
we all have our demons, and chocolate is my sin,
I slowley sink
Into the darkness
Of my mind
The demons know me
They call me by name
But they don't care for me
For who could love
A depressed girl?
Our bodies are nothing but sacred battle grounds.Our ribs wrap around our chests to ensure that no one else feels the earth-shaking explosions that rock our cores. Our muscles ache and strain just to keep every struggle confined and hidden.
Ominous ebony smoke fills the air
A mist of forsaken souls condemned to demons
Alabaster arms reach out and grab the prey
Frozen fingertips stain the innocent flame
Nails running deeply into the skin
I lie here not knowing if I’m awake or asleepI quickly open my eyes to realize the reality I once knew no longer existI no longer existA darkness now consumes me
Demons
They are everywhere
They are hidden inside
In the darkness
We don't notice
But we release our inner demons....
It's the symbol of hatred
Sadness
Despair
Bloodshed
Waiting for change, chances aren't worth taking. Waiting for answers, the future is still in the making. Change. A word that requires action. Struggle. Fighting the distractions. Step. Step. One foot in front of the other.
The battle within, is more intense than the fight outside. I want to take a puff, hit that needle, run then hide. I am brave in spirit, and stronger than I realize, but nothing I can think of, can compare to the high.
I've seen the Angels and Demons, I'm aware of Davinci's code. I keep falling down this path I'm on, somewhere I lost the road. I've stared a monster in the face. the evil I should fear, I felt none.
Dark power won't ever stand a chance.
I feel the evil shadows and see them in a glance.
I'll never let them reach my heart;
Dark power didn't stand a chance from the start.
Demons try to overcome me,
Ignore the girl hiding behind the maskshe whispers to me at night"what have you done?""you're so stupid""why would anyone want to care about you?"her whispers raise in volume and venom
I always feel like crumbling
As gravity pulls me down,
But when the music kills the sounds
I find myself lost in a sea of harmony
All the sorrow and anger I've felt
Gets lost stolen and secure
Sometimes I just look at you wondering how the world treats you, and what's going on inside your head.
Desguised, hidden, shunned, and thrown away.
I look into the mirror, all that I see, is the demon staring back at me.
Never knew who it was, until my mind was frozen with time.
Smoke in mirrors, to the sick minded that's clear
Clear as crystal...
The thoughts of ending life with a pistol
The burning under my skin,
a fire clawing out of my body.
I hear the tortured souls cry
as they are slowly burned.
The demons hide in the shadows,
waiting for me to sleep.
The moment I close my eyes,
Confidently unthinking I walked into the shadows
I thought I was Lolita, hardly, really I was callow
This is my final prayer,
That someone will care,
But it never seems to change
Because my mind is really strange.
It's dark inside,
All my pain and demons hide,
Maybe one day you'll see,
Maybe you fall down sometimes
Maybe the voices speak up again
Maybe you get lost easily
Maybe you don’t have to have everything figured out
Maybe…
Maybe some days are harder than others
Most of the time
We try to look at someone else's eye's
Try to understand through their covered lies
But what we do not realize
Viens throb from shameless drugs that mezmorize
When their mama cries
My demons
Have your face now.
Haunting my existence.
Creeping into my dreams.
My nightmares.
Keeping me awake
Keeping me on edge.
Keeping me your prisoner…
There were so many sleepless nights,
days where you'd lie in bed, and hardly even bother to see the light.
You couldn't find a reason, but you were just broken.
3 years old and father is ill. Ill.
I'll see him quench his obsessions, filling his demons with the drink of death.
They burn his insides, destroying our home,
while he sits calmly releasing his bitter smoke.
My mind is exhausted, but I choose not to sleep.
I just keep repeating words in my head, knowing
I'm indebted to a man with nail-pierced hands
And my time-span is spread-thin
A desperate question, asked by a friend
Five simple words- “Have you set a date?”
My heart quickened my mind raced
Did you know that queries could be daggers?
Fear storms through the dark endless skies
Where it seems that land can only exist at night
Where thugs rule the world and parents hide behind doors
Hypocritically stating,"the world is yours"
My body is so tired,
but my mind can find no rest.
I lie awake at the darkest hours,
fighting the demons in my head.
They poke and prod
at my skin
as I wander the earth
These careful creatures come out to play, I see them run, jump, and roll in the mud
They're like clouds on a summer's day, keeping a smile on my face and the sadness at bay
I feel him on my back,
The demon that’s riding me,
He’s been with me through everything.
Every panic attack,
He’s the one on my chest
Making it hard to breathe,
As I gasp in air.
What do my demons look like?
Beautiful, appealing on the outside,
they tempt even saints.
They steer off the path those
who have the smallest complaints.
Finding these small holes in faith
I close myself to the public
I close myself to you
There are dangers inside my mind
You might prick your fingers reaching inside
So I lock up my head and my heart goes with it
Don’t look at me like that
At a young age I was told
Demon's have black horns
And Angel's have white wings
I was taught that
Demon's will trick me into love
Then their black horns would imprison me
She's broken inside
with nowhere to hide,
yet she has everything in the world.
She's got family and friends
and the spoiling never ends.
But what she wants
is just a connection.
Where is he?
A whisper in the night,
Unnatural chill, causing a fright,
But my shiver isn’t from fear,
As sharp nails, like claws,
Run down my bare back.
Shining eyes in the dark,
we love to
observe the
angels
the gods
the light
we love to
pick out our
beauties
especially in those
we adore.
this
is
why
love
fails.
I'm swimming in a sea of saddness,
running out of breath.
Although it seems I've spotted shore,
I'm always wrong: it's never near.
I wish I'd sink or be attacked,
at least then I'd feel something.
I'd make a contract and sell my soul,
I'd wear the mark that bounds my soul,
for he's a demon,
I'm his master,
he'll do what I say,
just for my soul,
I don't mind for I'm unhappy,
Sick severed lipsHolding my bare hips.Like Achilles heel,The emotional appeal is severed.
And though I have no brainI can't really complainOf the wonders in the skyAnd how high I can go.
To change the past was your mistake
A broken life you can’t remake
Scars become the lines that you have crossed.
A child’s yearning to be free
Became your own worst enemy.
Sinner are lairs who sweetly
Roll a golden red apple into the world.
Like bombs they go off boom boom
They built these walls to protect me
At least that's what they said.
"Monsters, demons and darkness live
Beyond these high stone walls"
Entrigued I was by their small fact
Music is for the broken whose will has been abandoned and suicidal thoughts have nested.
So quick to contemplate death.
Instead a track plays to vibe with the heart and mend the mind to health.
I wander throughout the earthSearching for my havenWhere is safety?All that I see is as the firstNothing familiar to my sightConstantly running from the pastForever hauntingHe hunts for my soul
Innocence…Enlighten my eyesYour memory haunts my soulWill you forget me forever?Is our separation an eternity?Innocence…Vileness consumes meDarkness blinds me
She stares in darkness
her smile twisted
her eyes blackened
Who is this demon?
Tears of blood fall
she screams in pain
oh God, my sweet God
Where are you now?
Kiss my stained lips
SplitShatteredOne of many facesOne maskWho knows the answersFrom offenseTo defensePoet at onceFighter the nextLover at daySinner by night
Sometimes nothing holds me together,
The bond is ruined straight from the seam.
I look around and reach through forever,
Why I write seems such a complex question to pose,
With so many shimmering answers to reply with that shout for attention,
In my soul.
Heart thrumming
Blood pulsing
Mind racing
Thoughts raging
Demons pounding
At my door
Becoming one of them
Once more.
Screams shout from the soul. Dark demons fill the air. A hundred pieces of broken glass to walk upon. No where to go, lost, trapped. Stuck at the bottom, no way out. Help! No one hears, no one cares. The light is ever fading.
she silently stares at the monsters under her bed
chin resting on the knees she has pulled to her chest,
eyes as empty as the rhythmic heart beating—
out of obligation—
between her ribs.
Drowning in black.
Pulling me back is the red
The rage that brings around my head
The blood to bring about the blue flood,
Not of tears, but of a flimsy handle on my fears
Pain is silent demons, sometimes welcomed in our life
Often sorrowed for or about
The bloody red tears, that represent pain
Are all but real, for pain is what you feel
Tell me, do you feel pain from reading this poem;
You love him
he loves you
There's something not supporting you two.
It cuts through your love like a double-edged sword,
You were barely even warned.
You thought that love would be enough,
Like a touch upon the heart
He touched my hand.
A feather, caressing my pain within.
I fell apart..
I fell, melting through the tiniest all seams.
Like that feather knew
I hear a boom,
It makes me wanna stop.
I hear a boom,
Makes my heart stop.
What could it be?
maybe a demon being released from me.
Hell's hound running loose
Forever bound to the streets.
Twilight engulfs me.
I lose myself within its shadows.
I no longer exist.
I am part of the faceless dark.
I hate the night.
Orphaned from so young an age
It’s a wonder I ever escaped that cage
The world was so dark from the place whence I came
Monsters and demons they soon became.
These Monsters and demons came from those to be trusted
here we are
all alone,
each of us
a dry,
dead
bone.
NOTHING left
to loVe or haTe
a barren wasteland
of empty fate
Beneath the moonlight
I make my way,
Clearing out the fog
From the glare of day.
The darkness tempts
But does not take.
She dances to me,
But does not seduce.
I do not deny her,
Never never never never
I've been lost forever, forever
Never to be found or guided
Lost without a sunlit path
She’s a broken angel
She can’t fly anymore
She’s a broken angel
She can’t deal no more
The mornings are ending
The nights are dead
The walls are pressing in
Voices in my head
Have you ever had something just catch you?
Right when you were off guard.
That little, spontaneous, thing.
That makes everything that made you so weak
So fragile
So lost
Turn out those lights and darken this room.
The temperature's down, it feels like a tomb.
Breath coming ragid and heart beating fast.
Waiting for this attack to finally pass.
Shutting my eyes to block out my mind.
Just an angel in Hell
Trying to get to Heaven
The closer she makes it to the in-between
The further away Heaven seems
One day she'll make it there
Until then, she'll keep fighting her demons
The silent song of sorrows played with ease,
As her tribal dress swayed along the breeze
Her feet dug deep into the earth with every stomp
In her native tongue she spoke a vicious taunt,
