Acherontic Abyss by Ayaan Fahad

I open the windows,

Welcome the agonizing cold breeze—

It blows

Within my soul.

 

It casts spells on my mind,

Shows beauty futile to my eyes

For I have gone blind.

I refuse colors,

Poisoning the lavender hyacinths

On life’s barren land.

I snatch a dagger

And stab your pathetic helping hand.

 

My fingers twist and break,

Refusing to write

For my sanity’s sake.

With my bruised palms I carve

Each verse, a prayer for solace.

A saint worshiping words.

 

My mind: a labyrinth.

I carve perplex pathways

Leading to chthonic depths;

A vexed abyss

Of an insufferable mind.

 

I weave mosaics in lunacy.

Seduced by insomnia’s ecstasy.

Starving in famine,

I bathe in sanguine.

 

Fragments don’t constitute poems,

Call not a heart a home,

Turn yours to stone.

Flesh, Tears, Bone.

Call not a heart your home

 

You will turn to—

Flesh, Tears, Bone.

Turn to; my beloved graveyard,

Tombstone.

 

Cut warmth,

Weren’t you born in fire?

Plead paradise,

A demise to unearthly desire.

A tantalizing glimpse.

 

Walk among shadows—

The light will burn your skin,

Your crimson-stained white linen.

 

Specter’s entwine my soul.

I step deeper into the void,

Fiat tenebris: dim the light,

Suffocate brains pleading paranoid.

 

Dismal.

I step deeper into the void—

I fall, paranoid.

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Ayaan Fahad

Ayaan Fahad is a poet from Lahore, Pakistan. He aims to write poetry that emotionally resonates with people and captures things left unsaid, incorporating raw emotion within his works.