I pour out my soul
In this little book of horrors.
The secrets it now contains
Will be forever misunderstood.
Within it are the curses
Of a life forever diseased
And littered with the corpses
Of a million ghastly woes.
I could’ve been happy
With the innocence of boyhood,
If this were a dream world
Where boys remain unscathed.
But this world is hell
And it rapes boys and girls!
It penetrates their purity
And molests their happy souls.
This world is cruel and cold.
It’s a wasteland of ghosts,
And innocence is lost eternal
In a pool of hot blood.
And so, here I lay
Writing, bleeding it all out
Like a ruptured aneurysm
Flooding the cranial cavity.
From my fingertips of pain
I write my life bare,
Stripped naked for all
To see and to misunderstand.
I pour out my soul
In this little book of horrors.
Nothing is ever secret or safe
From the judgment to come.
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Author:
Tristan Robert Lange (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This poem reflects on my lifelong collection of writings, which spans a wide range of themes and emotions. While I explore various aspects of the human experience in my poetry, it's often the darker pieces that prompt me to consider how readers might perceive the mind behind these words. "Book of Horrors" acknowledges the challenge readers face when encountering deeply personal work, especially those dealing with pain and trauma. While everyone endures their own trials and joys, the intimate nature of poetry can create a barrier to full understanding. The words on the page, divorced from the writer's lived experience, may lead to misinterpretation. It's these more intense pieces that often make me ponder how readers might view the "dark/twisted" mind behind them. But, I find that confronting such things doesn't make one dark or twisted...just expressively honest. Ultimately, this piece explores the paradox of sharing our innermost thoughts while recognizing the limitations of truly conveying our experiences to others, regardless of the emotion or theme being expressed.
- Category: Reflection
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If indeed it was your life then this is cathartic; if not it reminds us of innocence denied and offers hope. So I see this as a winner in either case. I don't follow the misunderstanding, maybe that's just me.
Thanks! I am not sure if you read the comment to the poem. The misunderstanding is that, while the words convey darknesss, pain, torment, suffering, evil and those types of things, they do not convey why. The judgment that could and often does come from people who do not understand the person behind the words, and the things that could cause the person to think, feel and write in such ways, is what I meant by "misunderstanding." The words are there for all to read and understand, but only to the level that they can even understand as they were not the person that wrote them or went through the specific things that inspired the poem. We can know Poe, and Whitman, and Frost, and Shakespeare, and others, even knowing a bit of their biography; however, we cannot fully know what they were going through, or what they meant, at the time they wrote their great poems. All we can do is infer from their work the things they are emoting. I guess my point in the misunderstanding end of the poem is more of a philosophical reflection.
I love it. You may have your own idea of what was going on say in Poe's head and be totally off base. That is a very interesting perception. Thanks.
Very good write. In this day and age the world can be an awful place but peace and happiness are out there, sometimes they are not easy to find.
Thank you! They are indeed, and certainly not easy to find. I guess my poem was more about the loss of innocence that no one can avoid. With all of the hope that does exist in the world, it is in the midst of the hopelessness that we must seek the hope out. We're born with innocence, but that innocence is quickly lost to us. That's a painful truth, but one that is true nonetheless. Thanks for your feedback.
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