Slowly fading away,
darkness slowly overtaking.
Death washing over,
regret in your soul.
Though some may be soulless,
and killers may triumph,
in the end,
those with spirit shall prevail.
Embrace the feeling,
as death washes over you.
Relive your memories-
bullets, death, war.
All for a noble cause,
though some can’t say the same.
Those who once sought power,
eventually lost it all -
as gaining it takes lifetimes,
but losing it takes seconds.
Fire scorches the beaches,
soldiers storm the sacred city,
And as one bullet goes off,
the darkness slowly turns to light.
Ah, for the end to be so near,
yet darkness never truly fades…
the darkness has always been there,
lurking in the shadows.
War, plague, death, destruction,
all a product of humanity,
the one who bears the duality
of the light- and the dark
These revelations come to me
during my final hour.
Farewell my fellow soldiers,
as the light inside me slowly dies.
As I near the end,
I no longer embrace the light,
Or the dark.
I embrace myself.
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Author:
Vin (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: Okay big poem explanation incoming because I think I made it too complicated to understand the meaning of it LOL (and it’s nicer to understand what It means haha) the meaning of the poem was a soldier who fought in WWII on the battle of Normandy, who gets shot and starts to die. The soldier has a revelation and believes neither side is right in the war, since both sides equally cause death, war, and destruction. The one bullet going off in the middle of the poem is Hitler killing himself, and the end is near is the war almost ending. But it’s really not over yet because the war is still going on, and the cycle will always continue, hence where it says the darkness never fades. Then at the end, he says his final goodbye, and says what he truly believes in.
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Comments2
A fine write EnV.
not complicated at all,
don't worry about readers understanding 'your meaning', poetry - by design
is subjective, as is all art..
if your poem's wording is accessible, then theirs nothing more you can do..
thanks for sharing, a timely write
near Remembrance Day
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