WAITING FOR DARKNESS

A Chapter by Danny Erin

15 DARK POEMS

WAITING FOR DARKNESS

DANNY ERIN

15 POEMS

Waiting For Darkness
Time Heals Nothing
God’s Suicide
Swimming With Paedophiles
Never Been Alive
Let’s Pretend I’m The Devil
Frozen Laughter
Every Night
Check The Distance
What I Like About Myself
God Has Been Sacked
From Dahmer
Message To Fat B******s
I Will Teach You Evil
There Is A Light

WAITING FOR DARKNESS

All day long

since first light

sneaked its way in

uninvited, resented

you’re just waiting

for darkness to return.

The day arrives

like some unwanted visitor

you’re forced to admit

and are reluctantly

polite to

even knowing they bring

the latest punishments.

The light scrapes

across your mind

like sandpaper

as it floods the land

pompously

full of its own importance

watching, expecting, bullying

demanding rituals

are performed

in its honour.

But nothing that occurs

in the day

really touches you anymore

nor ever will again

because the legacy

of loss

never leaves

nor ever will again.

You watch the light

start to die

and there’s relief

at its passing,

a candle lit

to encourage

darkness in

and hurry light out.

Then blessed night

rolls in slowly

like an incoming tide

soothing, comforting, engulfing.

Affairs of the light

seem distant now

no longer important

deserve no special attention,

so you pour a drink

a vodka and darkness on the rocks

which merges

with valium

to celebrate

the death of the day.

Best part of the day

is night

that’s when

the b*****d light

grows dim

let’s oblivion

begin.

TIME HEALS NOTHING

Time heals everything

so the saying goes,

yeah so it does

in about

a thousand years

given the wounds

I’m carrying now

and the wounds

I know

will come.

Time heals nothing

in this life,

pain recedes

like an

ebbing tide,

there’s a

brief respite

then pain

flows back.

Wounds appear

to have healed

but it’s only

superficial -

the merest

memory scratch

and they’re open

once again.

Time heals nothing

in this life,

you just become

less

than you used to be,

dead

where you used to be

alive.

You still feel

but the pain

filters everything

and so very little

of real substance

touches you.

Pain has

changed you forever

and you’ll never

be you again.

So be warned -

time heals nothing

in this life.

Nothing.

GOD’S SUICIDE

Imagine if God

took a

long hard look

at us all

again

and was

disgusted

with what

He saw.

The wars

the torture

the starvation

the greed

the poverty.

Imagine if

He decided,

‘That’s it,

I’m tired of it all,

I’ve had enough.’

Then quietly

committed suicide.

SWIMMING WITH PAEDOPHILES

Some people

like to swim

with dolphins,

the braver ones

like to swim

with sharks

but I’d like to swim

with paedophiles.

I’d take them out

in my boat

to a quiet, calm

part of the ocean,

tie their hands

behind their backs,

strap on

their oxygen tanks,

then tip them

over the side

of the boat.

I’d swim down

with them

to fifty feet

then wrap

anchor chains

round their ankles,

rip off

their oxygen tanks

and watch

as the sick f***s

disappear

into the deep.

NEVER BEEN ALIVE

The Doctor

said to me,

“It’s bad news I’m afraid.

The cancer is worse

than we thought.

You’re going

to die soon.”

I looked at him

and said,

“But Doctor,

how can I die soon

when I’ve never

been alive

in the first place?”

LET’S PRETEND I’M THE DEVIL

Let’s pretend I’m the Devil

and I tortured you

six days a week

like your God does,

would you worship me

on the seventh?

Let’s pretend I’m the Devil

and I allowed some psycho

to kidnap and murder

your five year old daughter

as your God has done,

would you worship me

on the seventh?

Let’s pretend I’m the Devil

and I stood by and watched

as your home

and everything you’ve worked for

disappeared in a fire or flood

as your God has done,

would you worship me

on the seventh?

The horrors

he inflicts on you

are endless.

I’m sure

many examples

easily spring to mind

so why worship him

on the seventh?

He demands so much

yet the only explanation offered

is some 2000 year old story

about his son being crucified

then some vague rambling

in a book that still causes doubts.

And hey

check that one out,

if he allowed

his only son

to be crucified,

what chance

does a nonentity like you

have of his mercy?

Actually I am the Devil

and I’m coming over

to visit you

in your home,

I’m going to

torture you

six days a week

like your God does,

let’s see if you worship me

on the seventh.

FROZEN LAUGHTER

There are a hundred tons

of frozen laughter

locked up

inside me,

trapped

like tons of ice

at the north and south poles

and it will take

more than just

a few rays

of sunshine

to unfreeze it all

in this lifetime.

EVERY NIGHT

Every night

I drift off

to sleep

hoping

that I’ll

wake up sane.

Unfortunately

every morning

I wake up

and am

disappointed

yet again.

CHECK THE DISTANCE

Check the distance

from yourself

from the man

you thought you’d be.

Check the way

all roads departed

from the ones

that led you here.

Check the dreams

that lie behind you

on dead-end tracks

that beckoned clear.

Check what’s left

what’s left inside you

fragments now

remaining here.

Check the road

that lies before you

grows emptier

each passing year.

No choices left

no ‘Dreams This Way’ signs

narrow road

till this life ends,

you realise

with grim foreboding

you’re headed now

where karma sends.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MYSELF

I decided

to make a list

of all the things

I like

about myself

these days,

taking into account

my looks,

personality,

good points,

achievements,

and status.

So here’s

the list :

GOD HAS BEEN SACKED

In an amazing

turn of events today

and in view

of all

the recent

tornadoes, floods

famines and wars,

God has been sacked

as Ruler of Earth.

Looking at

God’s record

over several

million years

and taking

into account

such things as

the fate of the dinosaurs,

the extinction

of other species,

the dangerously

unstable state

of the planet,

all engineered

by God

and also

what mankind

has suffered

from day one,

the Inner Council

of Heaven

has decided

that God

should step down.

He’s received

plenty of warnings

in the past

but none

have had

any effect.

Lucifer

has been appointed

as the new

Ruler of Earth.

After all

how much worse

can he make it?

FROM DAHMER

I will

take you home.

I will

snuff you out.

I will

eat your flesh.

I will

steal your soul.

You are

mine forever.

You will

never leave me.

I am

Dahmer.

MESSAGE TO FAT B******S

I have a message

for all you

obscene fat b******s

out there.

When the new laws

come into force,

you’re all goin

on a special diet.

It goes

like this :

there are no calories

in a f****n bullet.

You’re all gettin

one each.

Just for

the hell of it,

you’ll be shot

thru the mouth.

Exceptional cases

will be given

a gastric band….

tightened slowly

round the neck.

I WILL TEACH YOU EVIL

You serial killers

you eaters of flesh

you slayers of souls

you amateurs.

You Stalins

you Hitlers

you Saddams

you beginners.

I approve

of your work

so far

but you still

have so much more

to learn.

Come to me

to Lucifer

come to me

and I will really

teach you

Evil.

THERE IS A LIGHT

I have been

stumbling through

this dark tunnel

a long time now.

It’s cold

it’s dark

it’s empty.

Feels like

I’ve been here

forever.

Suddenly

I see

a pinprick

of light

away

in the distance.

My heart lifts

my hope lifts

at last

there is a light

at the end

of the tunnel.

I stumble on

encouraged,

as the light

slowly gets stronger.

I smile

then see

it’s the headlight

of an oncoming train.

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