I really enjoyed reading this poem. Its odd because i just started feeling that way about a guy in my life and it freaked me out just a little. But i love it.
Well done. Through reading many of your pieces I’ve found that your work often teeters between three facets of writing: Letter, Song, and Poem. Each one has their distinct differences, but you will often write something that melds or blends two styles together. While, of course, no blend of any kind it truly flawless (and I don’t think a reasonable person like yourself would consider them to be), your work establishes a unique bridge between not only genres but methods of written expression. I enjoyed your latest addition.
reading this has helped set my confused mind on the rite path, and also calm my nevers. i know now how to tell people how i feel instead of dont worrie about it.
you couldn’t have released this poem at any other better time. As i sit in my dark room as we speak, listening to bright eyes and thinking along the same way. thank you for sharing.
Wow, just wow. I can relate to this poem perfectly, you speak the truth. I agree that your style seems to vary between poem and letter, but that isnt neccesarily a bad thing.
I know how what you speek of ..and i thank you for writeing this at this time…it helped but what can you do when they will not answer your prayer to be left alown?
i just want to say that you speak my mind. every time i feel down, i simly come to your site to try to understand my own feelings. i love your word. it is absolutly amazing.
This really does describe a feeling that we all know at least once or twice in our lifetimes. I remember a time when I was with my ex boyfriend and I was sitting in a chair watching him play on the computer. I remember feeling happy to be near him, but I wished he would just go away and leave me alone. He wasn’t even tlaking to me, he was doing his own thing. It was wierd.
I don’t think you mean to do this, but much of your work can be easily related by the teenage readers of your site. I have a feeling that many of us who read your work are teenagers, and I know it sounds corny, but you reach us- you reach me, anyhow. I wish I could offer a better critique. The only thing I can say is that your format is a bit off- the way the poem flows would dictate that you should put some parts of a line into its own line, if that makes any sense at all. For example, “I just need to be left alone to sit quietly in the dark.” When I read the poem it seemed like “to sit quietly in the dark” should be its own line, if only to separate the “to’s.” Other than that, I like it.
one of ur best works yet….i don’t kno wut it is about he dark but it always embraces u without judging u and it feels safe and comforting….excellent poem
It’s so sad, but yet these feelings are how we feel so much of the time. We love, but yet find discomfort with this love when our world is closing in. I feel this way lately, I am in the shadows, shadows that I want to be covering me and me alone. It is beautiful, Raven.
This poem completely portrays how I’ve felt over the past few months. My question is, how do you do it? It just seems like you know my very soul, everything that you write seems to relect my life. I am in love with your work….
Dude, thatpoem, It seriously just described my every feeling that I have felt this past month. I lost the one I love a week before x-mas and You just sumed up every feeling I have inside of me. Thats awsome.
Amazing. You are truely an artist. I love all your works, and you are by far my favorite gothic poet. You remind me of a teenage, female Edgar Allen Poe. If you keep this up, you very well may be.
this poem has actually given me alot of inspiration and thought, there is an element of power within the darkness, a feeling that you can be at one with the recess of your own mind, everyone needs there own place, to be truly alone, is to be in darkness, a place where no one else can have power over you, everyone needs to slip into themselves from time to time, alot of people dont understand it, yet they still have the need for it. to many people the darkness is a friend, as morbid as it seems it’s true
Wonderful. It really speaks to me. It express how I feel 90% of the time.It expresses how I feel right now. It’s like your reading my soul aloud to everyone. You’re a very talented person.
i feel that i can realate to this poem. i have been i this situation, i am in the situation. i just want to be left alone, but there is this hand sticking out to me, saying it can help, but really, no it can’t, it just wants me to think everything is fine when it really isn’t and the fact that they think i am sick. i feel that this is how my feelings are said from someone elses ponit of view, or from from someone elses experiance.
wow man i am always drawn to ur poems in my tuff times..sometimes i wish u live in florida so i can ask u questions on life but ill probly bug u but well this peoms is great i feel the same way and my g/f never under stand and that is why i am always alone
i realy injoyed this poem. i think that it is one of your best yet, i can fully agree with Suzi. this poem gave me insperation and thought. I have inbrased the darkness and i fell that if i hadent i would still be overpowered by those weaker then myself.
hey raven i loved the poem awsome work i chainged my e mail adress as you can tell and i would like to be on your mailing list once again. well until next time have fun and stay safe
All i really have to say is wow, I felt every word and I couldn’t better describe how i always feel. I am a new comer to your site and there is not a dought in my mind inwhich i wouldn’t come back on a regular basis. I will deffinetly come back.
raven, ur poem has helped me so much, thank u for sharing ur gifts with the world. i saw so much of myself in this poem and one day i hope i can post some of my poetry onlne and have someone be changed b/c of it.
It is one of the most brilliant peices I have ever read. This poem is so close to what I feel right now. I am going to get my friend to read it maybe he will understand what I go through and all. Sometimes this is how I feel about him so its all good. What a wonderfull poem.
I am astounded at your incredible ability to analyse and explain exactly how i feel, when, try as i might, i cannot make sense of myself. Thankyou for opening my eyes with your beautiful words and helping me when noone else can. My attempts at writing poetry are fairly dismal in comparison to this i’m afraid, but i wonder if you would like to read some of it? Please reply if so.
Thankyou again
Yoy have the most amazing way of explain these emotions that people feel everyday,this is probally one of the best poems i have ever come across and i felt able to relate to the words you wrote, truly amazing
I hate to sound like everybody else, but I can realy relate to this poem.Those times where you don’t want to hear or see anyone,even those you love.Well done Raven.
stop taking ravens words for your own no one can understand the blood and pain another goes through.
inspiring touching and beautiful piece of work raven i would have to say your my favorite writer take care
I don’t want to go on reading these poems, but i have to. Each one is more into my life than the next. These poems are making me feel, something i have not done in a long time. Keep writng, never stop.
Raven your poetry inspires me to become a better writer…poetry is the way I express what is going on with me…helps me become at peace with some of the many situations in life…you are an excellent writer and I look forward to reading more of your work…
Raven I love your work soooooo much. your poerty is the same way i feel. I love this poem. keep up the awesome writing. you inspire me soo much. thanx for all the great poems i love them. keep it up raven.
-Cass-
o my gosh!!
I love this poem because it is just like my life hiding in the dark, wants to be left alone srom all the pain i have been through, and just want to break down and cry. life isnt fair. just want to be free sometimes were i can just be free from all the damage that has happened or that will come. for me i play the violin in orchestra. its not the same when i am by my self playing my insturment. it releases stress from my life. so does reading sad poems that are related to my life. but keep up the good work. i hope that you will keep on righting more poems like this one.
thanks!!!
the pome can relat to my life cuse sometimes i just fell so alone and i want to be alone but when i dont know is there to love me.. keep up the good work
Many a time we are faced with the world’s pathetic excuse for a living. For everyday many of the people like me are excluded and ridiculed. I can;t even walk out of my house without being made fun of. NO, I’m not making a hit list of the people I want to kill, and I am not a suicide lover. I just want the taunting to stop. Just as much as I have my family’s word’s clawing at my back, for me to stop listing to my music, for me to stop wearing my clothes, I pray to God for the people of the world to come together and love one another. This is coming from a 15 year old african american goth.
i write poetry about the same exact stuff as u do. and this poem has given me lots of thoughts and paints a visual of emotion in my head. i think i feel wut u write about in this poem excellent!!!
very nicely done. I understand what you are saying. Pleasure in solitude and tranquility in pain. Very deep, very beautiful. I write some stuff like that but i’ve never really written it in “poetry format” That was awesome dawg. Well take care guy, i’m out.
i really like this poem and how it tells that u cant love some one everyday of ur life some times u feel like killing the one u love and then u feel like holding on to them and never letting go keep on writing
I love this poem… Then again I love all of your poetry and work. I relate to a lot of them, and I love reading your work because it lets me know I’m not alone. That I’m not the only person that feels they way I do. Thanks for sharing with us…
When I’m inconsolable, I feel torn apart, like a steel cage wrapped around me…I want to reach out to those I love, but I know that the demons haunting me will ensnare those I love…which I would regret forever…
It’s uncanny how In the Dark captured the atmosphere, emotion and power of when someone feels inconsolable
This poem is amazing. It’s filled with so much emotions, passion, loneliness confusion a whole bouquet of feelings. It really touched me. Becides I think it’s content is undieing, it’s one of those works that keep eternity in their meaning.
this is one of the best poems i have ever read!i can so realate to it so much. i can understandmy life situation now . just leave my alone and ill be ok
This poem really made me think. I really think this is what my ex-boyfriend is thinking right now. He ran away from home for I second time that I know of. He stole a car, a go-kart. He was staying with one of his ex’s and had the key I presume and went in and took 30 dollars. He eventually got caught and now he’s in jail. But he always told me that he loved me and that I was his favorite. He lives a life where he doesn’t care about anything around him…he’s like an animal who needs to be free. he doesn’t want to change, and it seems like he’s in the dark now, not wanting to come into the light. The sad thing is, is that I do want him to come into the light. Its where he needs to be….thank you for writing this poem. It’s very much appreciated
I can relate to feeling that way exactly where i live im all by myself no one is like me and its rough trying to live like that being utterly alone and closing myself off to others I have love and lost many times each time hurting me more and more until i didn’t think that i could keep going on like that. that life is just too cruel to keep dealing with but i learned that me being different just seperates me from all the other people who are all exactly the same thank you for putting in words how my heart and soul feel
I love this poem its so good to hear some gothic poetry which is also about loving someone.I can relate to this poem terribly because i use to feel like that every day.Keep writting you have a really good talent
This poem is great it reminds me of an ex of mine. Funnily enough he sent it to me and said he wanted me to know that he sometimes has to be alone. This opened my eyes thanks. Keep writing you have awesome talent.
I really can relate to that because I feel the same way it makes me happy to see that i’m not the only one suffering from people trying to make me come out of the dark and into the light but they don’t know how i feel as many times as told them to let me come out of the dark when i’m ready.But they don’t lisen,so thanks!
Wow, this is really a powerful poem. So many times in my life I have felt this way and you totally describe it. All the times of thinking of suicide and all the demons I felt surround me are vividly described in your poem. The part with the “leave me alone” theme is exactly the way I feel at times. Great job!
wow…..raven your words are so beautiful. i find it amazing how it is when you write it seems as is you reach deep inside of yourself and say what you are truly feeling!
WOW!! awesome poem you really have the talent that so many don’t. I rellate this poem to my life , keep writing you have an awesome talent for writing.
its kinda weird knowing other pple feel the same way I do this poem touched my heart..its basically the explanation of what my ex girlfriend haz done to me…FUCK U SARAH you backstabbing whore..I HATE YOU KEEP AWAY FROM ME!!
acceptable…deep words…but from reading all your poems they seemed to be blending into one idea…well that’s just something that i don’t like…but it’s great anyways…
awsome that poem is so me to awsome raven you got good talent like us poets most people think we are weird because of what we write about but it comes straight from the heart keep it flowing
I feel this poem grasps a piece of me and many others i mean even if your not gothic this poem can contain you what is life without expressing how you feel?
raven- how do you do it? its lyke you know my soul. ur poems r so very deep. they r depressing but r always true. u poems speak of the depth of peoples souls. u r my hero. NEVER STOP WRITTING!!!!!!! best wishes to the life ahead of u.
i can totaly realate to this poem, for i to get to a braking piont when nothing can cunsoul me, and my only peace found is in the dark. no words can help, no love is wanted and the only solution is to alow my emotiong eat me whole and spit out the only peace of happyness left, so i shal be ok after that.
this poem really discribs the way that my life is all the time.i came on here to c if i could find out if other people feel the way that i feel,thank god im not the only one.
i know now im not the only only one who likes to show there dark deep in your head poams to everyone…its nice to know that id like to add that i wish ryan would touch me i dont stalk him thats a joke but i want him you didnt need to know that
this poem reaches deep inside of me clenching to my deepest thoughts of insanity and piles stress on top of me as inhale and exhale every dark moment of my restless life
that was beautiful and ironically at the same time i was reading this poem i was trying to explain to someone the exact same thing. i love your poem and i know that that word has lost its value(love) i dont use it in vein
Wonderful, i say.
I value solitude heavily, but have never had one love me, except my parents, but they never know when to leave me alone.
I really like your poetry, raven.
This Is One Of My Favorites That You Wrote! Its So Powerful And I Feel Like We All Can Relate To That. You Are Truly A Genius At Writing Poetry. I Look Forward To Reading Your Book!
I hate it they way everyone always talks to me when I need to be alone in the dark, when I need to be alone with my pain. They tell me to talk to them, it’ll make me feel better, liars. I really like this poem.
” … bandage my heart with solitude.” wow what a fabulous line. its totally like that when you are hurting, you want to be left alone and solitude seems safest.
again, fab tastic work, i love this one.
i never liked a poem that never had any ryming in it i guess because i just could’t relate or couldn’t understand what that person was going through. But i thought your poem was very dark and understanding with what you where going through at the time. Not only was it beautiful but was also unique in every sort of way hope to buy your book.
i love this poem i have read all of ur poems and this one i apill to the most ur a alsome writer but i wish there was a word that could describe how this poem makes me feel ur poetry is touching but at the same time break breaking in ur poetry one person can have to many feelings from one poem i like to write poetry myself but i know it will never be as good as urs ur just alsome
i ´ve got soul, but im not a soldier. mexican guy who just got into dark. I DONT KNOW WHAT´S ON THIS GREATFUCKING POEM. IT REALLY TOUCH MY WASTED SOUL. I MUCH SAY TO MR. RAVEN. THANK YOU.
You write poetry that I am always relating to and it seems like I can never escape my problems no matter how hard I try to. I used to cut myself and rescently started again because of all of the problems that I am going through at home and everywhere else. Everytime I read one of your poems I know that I should find a new way to let out my pain and it helps me come up with ideas for new things that I can do. So all I want to say is thank you for everything.
I loved it (like all the rest i have read) have you writen a book? if you have PLEAS e-mail me so i know were to find it thank you so much for givign me an outlet (my mom would hug u)
I was locked up for 1.5 years and i can understand were you are coming from in in the dark. it touched me and im really glad that i i spent the time to read it. thank you for this poem and the website it helps me cope with everything im going through. so i say thanks and please try to keep this web site going.
The poem “In The Dark” is now one of my favorite poems that I’ve ever read.I like it because I can relate to it some ways, and I like some of your other poems for that same reason.You are now my favorit poetry artest. W/B
Wow this poem is amazing.You nailed my feelings and thoughts, I feel that way 90% of the time. As bad as this may sound it is nice to know that there is someone out there that can relate to those feelings…Thank-you for your wonderful insite to poerty.
I reall like this poem because I can relate to it sometimes. When things get really bad at home. How I feel is so much like what this poem says it’s. kinda scary. I have never really come across a poem that can relate to my feelings without it being one that I wrote so it was a surprise to me when I came across In the Dark. I really do go into my own dark world and I don’t want anything to do with anyone all I want is to be left alone until I chose to leave my little world of darkness.
Beautiful poem, i loved it, keep it up
wow i felt that poem it fills me because i know how that is and its kinda scary but i love it FANTASTIC
I really enjoyed reading this poem. Its odd because i just started feeling that way about a guy in my life and it freaked me out just a little. But i love it.
Wow, I’ve never been able to sum up my feelings at times, but this poem did it all. Very deep poem with much thought put into it. It’s excellent.
Well done. Through reading many of your pieces I’ve found that your work often teeters between three facets of writing: Letter, Song, and Poem. Each one has their distinct differences, but you will often write something that melds or blends two styles together. While, of course, no blend of any kind it truly flawless (and I don’t think a reasonable person like yourself would consider them to be), your work establishes a unique bridge between not only genres but methods of written expression. I enjoyed your latest addition.
reading this has helped set my confused mind on the rite path, and also calm my nevers. i know now how to tell people how i feel instead of dont worrie about it.
you couldn’t have released this poem at any other better time. As i sit in my dark room as we speak, listening to bright eyes and thinking along the same way. thank you for sharing.
Wow, just wow. I can relate to this poem perfectly, you speak the truth. I agree that your style seems to vary between poem and letter, but that isnt neccesarily a bad thing.
I know how what you speek of ..and i thank you for writeing this at this time…it helped but what can you do when they will not answer your prayer to be left alown?
Some people tease me about being a loner, especially when I’m incredibly depressed. This explains it as I never could.
This was such a beautiful poem. Truly a peice of art. I love it.
i just want to say that you speak my mind. every time i feel down, i simly come to your site to try to understand my own feelings. i love your word. it is absolutly amazing.
Very sad. Made me feel bad. Of love I wish I had.
Good Write.
words cannot describe how much i love this poem. its just perfect in everyway! keep writing
Hey raven… thanks again this lifts me up to a place that i would never feel like i could express my thoughs! thank you again raven!
This really does describe a feeling that we all know at least once or twice in our lifetimes. I remember a time when I was with my ex boyfriend and I was sitting in a chair watching him play on the computer. I remember feeling happy to be near him, but I wished he would just go away and leave me alone. He wasn’t even tlaking to me, he was doing his own thing. It was wierd.
I don’t think you mean to do this, but much of your work can be easily related by the teenage readers of your site. I have a feeling that many of us who read your work are teenagers, and I know it sounds corny, but you reach us- you reach me, anyhow. I wish I could offer a better critique. The only thing I can say is that your format is a bit off- the way the poem flows would dictate that you should put some parts of a line into its own line, if that makes any sense at all. For example, “I just need to be left alone to sit quietly in the dark.” When I read the poem it seemed like “to sit quietly in the dark” should be its own line, if only to separate the “to’s.” Other than that, I like it.
one of ur best works yet….i don’t kno wut it is about he dark but it always embraces u without judging u and it feels safe and comforting….excellent poem
*sighs* it describes exactly how im feeling ……I love the way it’s wroten,it’s beautiful!
Good personification.
That was truly the best poem i have ever read. It was beautifully written. I love it, and it is officially my new favorite.
Yes very well writtten indeed
Very gloomy. Reminds me of shadows past.
It’s so sad, but yet these feelings are how we feel so much of the time. We love, but yet find discomfort with this love when our world is closing in. I feel this way lately, I am in the shadows, shadows that I want to be covering me and me alone. It is beautiful, Raven.
I loved your poem.You know I love all of your poems but this one is the best ever.
i loved it… grate poem : )
Wonderfull, 4 thums up one of your gratest pieces!!!
This is a very beautiful poem. I can relate to this peice as to many of your peices. Keep up the writing.
i really liked it . very , very , very beauitful.
That was truely a beautiful poem. Gloomy and heartbroken. Just like me. I love it. Its my new favorite.
This poem completely portrays how I’ve felt over the past few months. My question is, how do you do it? It just seems like you know my very soul, everything that you write seems to relect my life. I am in love with your work….
Dude, thatpoem, It seriously just described my every feeling that I have felt this past month. I lost the one I love a week before x-mas and You just sumed up every feeling I have inside of me. Thats awsome.
Amazing. You are truely an artist. I love all your works, and you are by far my favorite gothic poet. You remind me of a teenage, female Edgar Allen Poe. If you keep this up, you very well may be.
So Mote It Be,
Kalika, Child of Darkness
it’s really beutifull the way u write it helps me a loT!thanks
i feel what you are saying, it speaks to me completely
thats amazing there are many times that i have felt that and choose darkness and solitude over light and joy so very true thanks again
thats an awesome poem and very appreciated by myself especially
this poem has actually given me alot of inspiration and thought, there is an element of power within the darkness, a feeling that you can be at one with the recess of your own mind, everyone needs there own place, to be truly alone, is to be in darkness, a place where no one else can have power over you, everyone needs to slip into themselves from time to time, alot of people dont understand it, yet they still have the need for it. to many people the darkness is a friend, as morbid as it seems it’s true
I am at a loss for words…
love this poem. makes me think of better days.
beautiful,im going through the exact same thing so when i read that i see my whole life in words,truly a woek of art
Wonderful. It really speaks to me. It express how I feel 90% of the time.It expresses how I feel right now. It’s like your reading my soul aloud to everyone. You’re a very talented person.
i really love it..but all your poems are really good
Wow! Spoken as if by my soul.
i feel that i can realate to this poem. i have been i this situation, i am in the situation. i just want to be left alone, but there is this hand sticking out to me, saying it can help, but really, no it can’t, it just wants me to think everything is fine when it really isn’t and the fact that they think i am sick. i feel that this is how my feelings are said from someone elses ponit of view, or from from someone elses experiance.
This is probably the best poem I have ever read, it’s really deep and I just love the way it flows. Keep writing, you’re an awesome poet.
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i really like this poem it’s real good i wish i had talent like you i do write poems but not any of them are as good as yours
wow man i am always drawn to ur poems in my tuff times..sometimes i wish u live in florida so i can ask u questions on life but ill probly bug u but well this peoms is great i feel the same way and my g/f never under stand and that is why i am always alone
i realy injoyed this poem. i think that it is one of your best yet, i can fully agree with Suzi. this poem gave me insperation and thought. I have inbrased the darkness and i fell that if i hadent i would still be overpowered by those weaker then myself.
wow! this poem was beautiful, yet dark in passion. i feel like i relate to it very well…
hey raven i loved the poem awsome work i chainged my e mail adress as you can tell and i would like to be on your mailing list once again. well until next time have fun and stay safe
**Raven**
All i really have to say is wow, I felt every word and I couldn’t better describe how i always feel. I am a new comer to your site and there is not a dought in my mind inwhich i wouldn’t come back on a regular basis. I will deffinetly come back.
……wow raven! great work. i really love this poem. it reminds me of myself and how i feel when at times. anyway its really awsome raven
Wow! It’s entirely dark and so beautiful. Good work. I just love it.
raven, ur poem has helped me so much, thank u for sharing ur gifts with the world. i saw so much of myself in this poem and one day i hope i can post some of my poetry onlne and have someone be changed b/c of it.
asome,i love it
your poem is completely relatable and real.
My chest constricted when I read this poem…that tells you alot
It is one of the most brilliant peices I have ever read. This poem is so close to what I feel right now. I am going to get my friend to read it maybe he will understand what I go through and all. Sometimes this is how I feel about him so its all good. What a wonderfull poem.
I really love this poem. its ust like how i feel alot of the times!!! keep writing poems like this one!!!
It’s real unlike many of the poems I have read…I am still an amateur writer, your poems are inspiring and I can relate.
awsome, i can relate to this very well it describes how i have been fealing over the past couple of months, very impresive
That was awsome truely evil and true, it makes me think. I like that, beautiful and true, dark at the same time.
i can relate this poem to my own troubles like this. it resembles what i feel too.
About the 50th time i’ve read this peom and it gets beter everytime. Really brilliant writing.
awsome i love ur poem its so……..i cant describe it
I am astounded at your incredible ability to analyse and explain exactly how i feel, when, try as i might, i cannot make sense of myself. Thankyou for opening my eyes with your beautiful words and helping me when noone else can. My attempts at writing poetry are fairly dismal in comparison to this i’m afraid, but i wonder if you would like to read some of it? Please reply if so.
Thankyou again
I really like this poem, I could understand it and I could emotionally relate to it, you did a fantastic job.
Monica Age 20
Salem, Oregon
great poem…it seems to say how everyone here is feeling. Your a great writing
Im crappy
I read your poems and this is my favorit one….
ok raven i can totaly relate to this poem it really touched me
Yoy have the most amazing way of explain these emotions that people feel everyday,this is probally one of the best poems i have ever come across and i felt able to relate to the words you wrote, truly amazing
I had to write this poem down and keep it in my favorite poems book because it was so touching.. great work Raven
Thanks now I can show my boyfriend how i really feel
My God!! Are you spying on me?? that relates so closely to my life i can hardly believe it. Its great keep writing
I hate to sound like everybody else, but I can realy relate to this poem.Those times where you don’t want to hear or see anyone,even those you love.Well done Raven.
That was great! It sounded like something my girlfriend would write.
THAT POEM WAS VERY DEEP!IT WILL BE SOMETHING YOU WOULD WRITE TO AN EX GIRL OR BOY FRIEND YOU KNOW TRY TO GET BACK TOGETHER OR SATAY TOGETHER.
I LOVE THE POEM ITS DEEP AND DARK AND FROM THE HEART
stop taking ravens words for your own no one can understand the blood and pain another goes through.
inspiring touching and beautiful piece of work raven i would have to say your my favorite writer take care
I don’t want to go on reading these poems, but i have to. Each one is more into my life than the next. These poems are making me feel, something i have not done in a long time. Keep writng, never stop.
Raven your poetry inspires me to become a better writer…poetry is the way I express what is going on with me…helps me become at peace with some of the many situations in life…you are an excellent writer and I look forward to reading more of your work…
Raven I love your work soooooo much. your poerty is the same way i feel. I love this poem. keep up the awesome writing. you inspire me soo much. thanx for all the great poems i love them. keep it up raven.
-Cass-
o my gosh!!
I love this poem because it is just like my life hiding in the dark, wants to be left alone srom all the pain i have been through, and just want to break down and cry. life isnt fair. just want to be free sometimes were i can just be free from all the damage that has happened or that will come. for me i play the violin in orchestra. its not the same when i am by my self playing my insturment. it releases stress from my life. so does reading sad poems that are related to my life. but keep up the good work. i hope that you will keep on righting more poems like this one.
thanks!!!
the pome can relat to my life cuse sometimes i just fell so alone and i want to be alone but when i dont know is there to love me.. keep up the good work
Many a time we are faced with the world’s pathetic excuse for a living. For everyday many of the people like me are excluded and ridiculed. I can;t even walk out of my house without being made fun of. NO, I’m not making a hit list of the people I want to kill, and I am not a suicide lover. I just want the taunting to stop. Just as much as I have my family’s word’s clawing at my back, for me to stop listing to my music, for me to stop wearing my clothes, I pray to God for the people of the world to come together and love one another. This is coming from a 15 year old african american goth.
This poem is exellent!! I relate to it, and it’s how I feel..
i write poetry about the same exact stuff as u do. and this poem has given me lots of thoughts and paints a visual of emotion in my head. i think i feel wut u write about in this poem excellent!!!
very nicely done. I understand what you are saying. Pleasure in solitude and tranquility in pain. Very deep, very beautiful. I write some stuff like that but i’ve never really written it in “poetry format” That was awesome dawg. Well take care guy, i’m out.
i really like this poem and how it tells that u cant love some one everyday of ur life some times u feel like killing the one u love and then u feel like holding on to them and never letting go keep on writing
I love this poem… Then again I love all of your poetry and work. I relate to a lot of them, and I love reading your work because it lets me know I’m not alone. That I’m not the only person that feels they way I do. Thanks for sharing with us…
When I’m inconsolable, I feel torn apart, like a steel cage wrapped around me…I want to reach out to those I love, but I know that the demons haunting me will ensnare those I love…which I would regret forever…
It’s uncanny how In the Dark captured the atmosphere, emotion and power of when someone feels inconsolable
This poem is amazing. It’s filled with so much emotions, passion, loneliness confusion a whole bouquet of feelings. It really touched me. Becides I think it’s content is undieing, it’s one of those works that keep eternity in their meaning.
i almost don’t have words to describe this poem and i think too much of them could ruin its message.. but i loved it…
this is one of the best poems i have ever read!i can so realate to it so much. i can understandmy life situation now . just leave my alone and ill be ok
This poem really made me think. I really think this is what my ex-boyfriend is thinking right now. He ran away from home for I second time that I know of. He stole a car, a go-kart. He was staying with one of his ex’s and had the key I presume and went in and took 30 dollars. He eventually got caught and now he’s in jail. But he always told me that he loved me and that I was his favorite. He lives a life where he doesn’t care about anything around him…he’s like an animal who needs to be free. he doesn’t want to change, and it seems like he’s in the dark now, not wanting to come into the light. The sad thing is, is that I do want him to come into the light. Its where he needs to be….thank you for writing this poem. It’s very much appreciated
I thought this poem related to me sooo much. I know exactly how you feel. I loved it!
I can relate to feeling that way exactly where i live im all by myself no one is like me and its rough trying to live like that being utterly alone and closing myself off to others I have love and lost many times each time hurting me more and more until i didn’t think that i could keep going on like that. that life is just too cruel to keep dealing with but i learned that me being different just seperates me from all the other people who are all exactly the same thank you for putting in words how my heart and soul feel
the dark prince
i loved it i can relate to it
I love this poem its so good to hear some gothic poetry which is also about loving someone.I can relate to this poem terribly because i use to feel like that every day.Keep writting you have a really good talent
This was a really great poem i love it so much!:)
This poem is great it reminds me of an ex of mine. Funnily enough he sent it to me and said he wanted me to know that he sometimes has to be alone. This opened my eyes thanks. Keep writing you have awesome talent.
this peom is brilliant. who wrote it?
this peom is brilliant.
I really can relate to that because I feel the same way it makes me happy to see that i’m not the only one suffering from people trying to make me come out of the dark and into the light but they don’t know how i feel as many times as told them to let me come out of the dark when i’m ready.But they don’t lisen,so thanks!
Wow, this is really a powerful poem. So many times in my life I have felt this way and you totally describe it. All the times of thinking of suicide and all the demons I felt surround me are vividly described in your poem. The part with the “leave me alone” theme is exactly the way I feel at times. Great job!
wow…..raven your words are so beautiful. i find it amazing how it is when you write it seems as is you reach deep inside of yourself and say what you are truly feeling!
WOW!! awesome poem you really have the talent that so many don’t. I rellate this poem to my life , keep writing you have an awesome talent for writing.
ok now that tuched me a lot
RAVEN - you are the greatest - how do you read my soul - so much of your poetry is so my life - keep writing…kiara
its kinda weird knowing other pple feel the same way I do this poem touched my heart..its basically the explanation of what my ex girlfriend haz done to me…FUCK U SARAH you backstabbing whore..I HATE YOU KEEP AWAY FROM ME!!
….This is very good….at least i know i’m not alone about thinking and such….kinda like my own thoughts….keep writing….
I don’t recall posting a comment for this…I should have, but I’d just like to say this is wonderful!
this poem is one of the best I have ever seen!!
your poetry sounds like silk poured over my skin
heartbreakingly beautiful raven, yet another masterpeice!!bravo bravo
my my my this is an amazing poem
acceptable…deep words…but from reading all your poems they seemed to be blending into one idea…well that’s just something that i don’t like…but it’s great anyways…
love will be faded memory,
find peace in this
this is magnificent. if only i could have shown this to my girl friend a few weeks ago she might have understood why i wasnt in a talkative mood.
Out of all the poems…this one is my favourite…it is really meaningfull and I couldn’t stop reading it without blinking!
Very well-written
x Chloe x
wow raven,
this really touched my heart!
awsome that poem is so me to awsome raven you got good talent like us poets most people think we are weird because of what we write about but it comes straight from the heart keep it flowing
absolutely beautiful i loved it.
Thats really deep and I can totally relate to it..I love it and I think it’s the perfect way to express myself!GREAT WORK!!!
really powerfull and deep poem… i can totally relate to this…. you are such an awesome writer.. this is probably my favorite piece so far
I feel this poem grasps a piece of me and many others i mean even if your not gothic this poem can contain you what is life without expressing how you feel?
I THINK THAT THIS POEM CAN REALY RELAY TO PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELINGS. I LIKE THIS POEM ALOT!!!!
raven- how do you do it? its lyke you know my soul. ur poems r so very deep. they r depressing but r always true. u poems speak of the depth of peoples souls. u r my hero. NEVER STOP WRITTING!!!!!!! best wishes to the life ahead of u.
i can totaly realate to this poem, for i to get to a braking piont when nothing can cunsoul me, and my only peace found is in the dark. no words can help, no love is wanted and the only solution is to alow my emotiong eat me whole and spit out the only peace of happyness left, so i shal be ok after that.
i realy like this poem, i think that it does nothing but speak the truth.
woaw this is really how i feel at the moment, you express my feelings by the poetry you write.
this poem really discribs the way that my life is all the time.i came on here to c if i could find out if other people feel the way that i feel,thank god im not the only one.
Wow this poem really touches my heart and i really feel this in my life now. i love it alot . it makes me proud to find someone like me too.
Very good
Huh, I can so relate to the feeling that made this poem…thnx…couldn’t write it better myself!
wow really good
i know now im not the only only one who likes to show there dark deep in your head poams to everyone…its nice to know that id like to add that i wish ryan would touch me i dont stalk him thats a joke but i want him you didnt need to know that
told you Raven it is amazing to read your stuff and its my favorite have it on my wall door and locker
hope to talk to you soon
~*Stephanie*~
You hit it perfectly. This poem discribes me so well. I know that there are many of us that feel what this poem says every day.
you pomes imbrace my thoughts and open my mind to a world of wording, your wicked in my pages.
this poem reaches deep inside of me clenching to my deepest thoughts of insanity and piles stress on top of me as inhale and exhale every dark moment of my restless life
beautiful…it opens up a deeper part of me that feels as if i never had
this poem is awesome
that was beautiful and ironically at the same time i was reading this poem i was trying to explain to someone the exact same thing. i love your poem and i know that that word has lost its value(love) i dont use it in vein
wow Raven, your work is extrodinary. this poem describes exactly how i feel right now. love your work Raven.
Wonderful, i say.
I value solitude heavily, but have never had one love me, except my parents, but they never know when to leave me alone.
I really like your poetry, raven.
That was so good. I feel the same about this guy, and that poem seemed to reach deep into my head and its poems. Thanks for the peom, really helps.
This Is One Of My Favorites That You Wrote! Its So Powerful And I Feel Like We All Can Relate To That. You Are Truly A Genius At Writing Poetry. I Look Forward To Reading Your Book!
I hate it they way everyone always talks to me when I need to be alone in the dark, when I need to be alone with my pain. They tell me to talk to them, it’ll make me feel better, liars. I really like this poem.
this is deep thoughts
Wow. that was like, wow, it really blew me away, i just love the way you express solitude and I can totally relate to this poem, awesome
brilliant! this poem really touched me and it is great, well done!!! xxx
” … bandage my heart with solitude.” wow what a fabulous line. its totally like that when you are hurting, you want to be left alone and solitude seems safest.
again, fab tastic work, i love this one.
This is sooo true….you tell it like it is….:) how do u do it!?!?! ahh….im jealous!! -.-
anyways yah amazing poem, loved it a lot
-Danielle <33
i never liked a poem that never had any ryming in it i guess because i just could’t relate or couldn’t understand what that person was going through. But i thought your poem was very dark and understanding with what you where going through at the time. Not only was it beautiful but was also unique in every sort of way hope to buy your book.
FANTASTIC!!!!!! I sent it to all my friends. Thank u it really conforted me and helped my lots. thanks again great job!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Wow that was awesome.There are no words for it.
It makes me want to right a song about it.
Can I use it in my music for my band “The Forgotten”? jk.
you have written the perfect poem for the perfect situation, and im in itjust how you put it it is and thank you
i love this poem i have read all of ur poems and this one i apill to the most ur a alsome writer but i wish there was a word that could describe how this poem makes me feel ur poetry is touching but at the same time break breaking in ur poetry one person can have to many feelings from one poem i like to write poetry myself but i know it will never be as good as urs ur just alsome
i must say raven i am a very tough critic but this, this is pure and should never have eyes set upon it that are unworthy … keep it up
IN THE DARK
AWSOME love it
i ´ve got soul, but im not a soldier. mexican guy who just got into dark. I DONT KNOW WHAT´S ON THIS GREATFUCKING POEM. IT REALLY TOUCH MY WASTED SOUL. I MUCH SAY TO MR. RAVEN. THANK YOU.
You write poetry that I am always relating to and it seems like I can never escape my problems no matter how hard I try to. I used to cut myself and rescently started again because of all of the problems that I am going through at home and everywhere else. Everytime I read one of your poems I know that I should find a new way to let out my pain and it helps me come up with ideas for new things that I can do. So all I want to say is thank you for everything.
~Dark_Angel~
BEAUTIFUL
I loved it (like all the rest i have read) have you writen a book? if you have PLEAS e-mail me so i know were to find it thank you so much for givign me an outlet (my mom would hug u)
I was locked up for 1.5 years and i can understand were you are coming from in in the dark. it touched me and im really glad that i i spent the time to read it. thank you for this poem and the website it helps me cope with everything im going through. so i say thanks and please try to keep this web site going.
wow this poem is so amazing….i love all of them
i think it’s absolutely dark , perfect
The complexity of the sufferage is outstanding
Excelent job
it was beautiful
it made ne think of oh i care to hate
Awsome,different,and very influencial.
loved it.
The poem “In The Dark” is now one of my favorite poems that I’ve ever read.I like it because I can relate to it some ways, and I like some of your other poems for that same reason.You are now my favorit poetry artest. W/B
Amazing .i can relate to it much more then i would want to. its great
awsome
Wow…I can relate and im so touched because this iz the story of my life.Awsome poetry and great details.
Wow this poem is amazing.You nailed my feelings and thoughts, I feel that way 90% of the time. As bad as this may sound it is nice to know that there is someone out there that can relate to those feelings…Thank-you for your wonderful insite to poerty.
This one .Yes. Hmmm… It reminds me of whne i look into mirror. I glance at how happy i was in teh past. Hoping That happiness would return.
This one .Yes. Hmmm… It reminds me of whne i look into mirror. I glance at how happy i was in teh past. Hoping That happiness would return.
Beautiful poem, i loved it, keep it up
this poem is sooooo deep and i love every thing that it speakes about………it touches me in the right moment ……..just keep the solitude up
THIS IS the poem I wanted to post a comment about!
I LOOOove it!
This poem is wonderful! It makes me remember the times I feel like that! Love it!
i like this poem too much , you are geart how could you fantastically convay such a real feeling only happens for very unique peapol.
great stuff, i feel like that now and then
that poem describes how i feel exactly at this very moment, this past week or two. another beautiful poem
this poem descibes what i feel in everyday life
THIS POEM IS REALLY GREAT. BETTER THAN MINE.
Woh, this is really amazing. Alot of people probably relate to this, I know I do. Great work! ^.^
Its awesome n i hope to read more…
it was perfect, it describes my life.
Keep it up.
just great…I could see myself in every word..but could never say it. It’s simply beautiful!
I reall like this poem because I can relate to it sometimes. When things get really bad at home. How I feel is so much like what this poem says it’s. kinda scary. I have never really come across a poem that can relate to my feelings without it being one that I wrote so it was a surprise to me when I came across In the Dark. I really do go into my own dark world and I don’t want anything to do with anyone all I want is to be left alone until I chose to leave my little world of darkness.
Love it. Just how I feel.
all i have to say is that i really relate to this poem but i know a lot of people say that, ur really talented! keep it ^
This poem is the best i love this poem i do poetry myself and it is good for a couple of reasons
i feel the exact same way about this poem. i loved it.
I like that. It is what i go through sometimes. Basically all of last summer. Thank you.
raven
ps no i didn’t steal your name. I have had this for sometime. please dont find it offensive or bothersome.
i like it i remind me of myself in a dark room alone just wanting to be left alone
Wow. this work is astounding, It’s just how I feel… I’ve been writing darkly poems since I was 11, none can add up to this ..(just yet)