r/Dark_Poetry • u/Common_Ad_2052 Despair • 9d ago

Death Sentence

If this isolation is a kind of death,
breath fades, and this silence
is the sentence I am serving.

Unnerving as it is, breathing is not the same
as being alive.

Drive gone, this absolute isolation
has become my sentence.

Repentance follows if this breath is not living.
Giving up, the silence has become my heavy fate.

Late in this death of life,
I am trapped in the dark.

Stark and cold,
being alone is a certain death.

Breath stops,
and so this is my final death sentence.

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u/Dry-Hair-7022 9d ago

Nicely written. I enjoy these lines the best : "Stark and cold, being alone is a certain death." That could not be more true.

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u/Common_Ad_2052 Despair 9d ago

Being alive and actually being alive are two completely different things the way I see it