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The Final Act

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How does my heart continue to beat?
After it's been crushed and spat on so much;
Tortured and broken and battered and such...?

Destined to exist in solitude,
A black cloud of misery hangs over me like a curse.
Falling asleep in the arms of mocking fate,
Death becomes my soul... Where is my hearse?

So done in with trying;
Infected to the core.
Fatigued from reaching
so much... My arms: sore.

I had given up and given in,
Content with the little happiness I'd found.
Then, came you... from out of nowhere,
With no warning, without a sound.

A gesticulating magnet: You...
My heart: poisoned with mercury.
Adhered together, a perfect match, too.
You held me there against you, an antidote for my insecurity.

How cleverly you played your part;
How brilliant was your cue.
But, all too soon you break my heart...
How could I have fallen in love with you?

The lights are dimming, curtain being lowered;
No audience to applaud my dramatic fall.
I lie on an empty stage, the darkness consuming...
No one left to hear my lugubrious call.

After all I've been through,
What a fool am I to think you to be the answer...
After all the betrayal and theft,
the broken promises... the cancer.

I am ill, out of my mind;
Lost all hope to ever be truly loved.
No one is actually great, nor ever really kind.
To say the least... the wrong way- I have been rubbed.

So, cancel the decorations.
Stop all the invitations.

Brief happiness has taken flight;
True reality now in sight.

I'm closing my eyes on this world of make believe;
Giving over to logic and fact.
Knights in shining armor do not exist...
Only ogres who mangle and hack
this little girl's heart into a million pieces.
Open your eyes, Kid... Welcome to the real world...
It's filled with ugly beasties.
My Literary Groups have permission to constructively critique.

Is it typical? Or does it host a unique sense of moroseness? I like to think that it's a bleeding heart... and it's singing in rhyming verse.

hahaha... OK, gag. I was really in a sad place here. Ya think? Obviously.

Comment if you wish. I do actually think it's pretty good.
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