Diamonds and Dust

SerenWise

2am and I'll lie on the floor

With the dust and dirt

Of the daily grind

Caught up in my hair.

Tears well up in my heart

And glisten in my eyes,

Falling from my 

                      cold cheeks

                                        like diamonds...

But there's no real beauty here,

Only the sad, tragic beauty

That sounds so sweet in a poem

Or fairytale.

But it's a hell to live it.

  • Author: SerenWise (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 20th, 2019 13:56
  • Category: Sad
  • Views: 22
  • User favorite of this poem: SoulMeetsBody.
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Comments3

  • dusk arising

    heres an extract from something i wrote recently:-
    for thats where every poet
    is the same, dontcha know it
    our hearts on our sleeves
    showing inside we bleed
    but sometimes it just don't chime
    making pain into rhyme
    it ain't always pretty
    when you're down feeling shitty

    your words made me think, i know just how you feel both inside and how it can look in poetry.

    Great tragic writing from you.

  • Neville

    you only need ask and I will lend you an ancient quilt and a tie for those tresses..... very nicely poemed in my opinion....... thank you say's I ....

  • SoulMeetsBody

    There's a line from the one hit wonder Somebody That I Used To Know that's always stuck with me - "You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness". I feel like that encapsulates the tone of the poem. I love the poetic and the almost, but not quite melodrama (due to being written with what seems to be a genuine sadness) of the first part before going into a harsher and colder description of what sadness can really be like when you strip away the catharsis. Just pure and bleak nothingness. Depression if you will. And with a further mirroring in the title - the beauty of diamonds with the nothingness of dust. A brilliant poem, absolutely stunning.



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