POEM STARTER
You are convinced you can see mysterious figures lurking in the shadows. Write a poem about them.
Choose a specific style of poetry that would be suitable for this theme.
Guilt
It is not as though I taunted you
Nor reached out for you
It is not as though I called nor beckoned
If I have summoned you in some way,
By some dishonest deed or fumble
Such that would provoke such ghoulish figures
Or plague me with such apparitions, I repent
How can you torment me so?
With no voice, no eyes, no soul, no body
Only lack of light
Passing so casually by as if you don't know you don't belong here
Passing through me with the nonchalance of the conscious-less
What have I done?
Say something!
What have I done?
Explain!
What have I done?
Go away!
What taunted, reached, called, beckoned?
Return to darkness if you cannot say
Is it the depths of the atmosphere you inhabit?
Or the depths of my mind?