The Light Is Gone Poem by Boston Kelley

The world is consumed by darkness
as the light from my soul vanishes.
All of humanity descends into madness
as the love within me is wrung like a sponge.
I look at the world and sense a detachment;
where is the love I once had?
Captured by hopelessness, my heart is held
prisoner; these eyes no longer look through
the same lens.
Oh, my heart, how can you be rescued?
Who will free you from your wretched prison?
Pitch-blackness consumes me as the darkness
overwhelms my mind; an irritation do I feel toward
my fellow man.
Too far do I seem to be saved for this man has
lost his passion.
He wanders the land searching for himself
and is met with an impostor.
The impostor is skilled at deception and masks
his true, wicked nature.
The man holds tightly to him, desperate for any
remnant of his former self.
Like the sun, I once shone bright, a light too
difficult to extinguish; alas, the light is gone,
and the cold, thick blackness has come.