The Abyss and the Vortex
By Stormy Stevens
© November 15, 2002
The ground beneath me shakes and trembles
threatening to swallow me whole
It's jaws open wide and show me
the fiery depths that are below
It is not really hell I see just
the hell that is my mind
The twisted chemicals in my brain
The ties that make me, the ties that bind
I stand at the edge, which is the abyss
looking down into the swirling vortex
Wondering when the next slip will be
Wondering what I'm to expect next
The vortex is the hell you see
but is filled with blood reds and black blues
The abyss is the edge that I teeter on
slippery marble of misty bluish hues
I was born into the vortex but
climbed up onto the abyss
I'm forever fighting between them
But I'm not one to quit
I hope one day to leave this place
of sadness and despair
I know my anchors are holding me
and I know that they truly care
Comments (4)
Hmmm! I wanted to read this blog, maybe directly comment, and possibly award you an eprop or two, but the yellow text does a disappearing act, when joined with the white background. Can you either give it a dark(er) backdrop, or change the text to a darker color?
(The only way I even know there is yellow colored text, is that I can faintly see something yellowish and squiggly underneath the title, "The Abyss and the Vortex". After that---a blank white page!
I may be an eccentric sort of genius in certain areas of life, but am not skilled in reading invisible ink! LOL :~P
Shell
that is really really well written, i can feel what you are trying to say with it. Just keep hanging onto your anchors, you will be allright. I know you will make it out of that abyss and back into the light
Belinda
Hi Sweetie, It's me again!
On one of your comment posts to my site, your closing greeting line was: "LL&BB"
What does that stand for?
(Btw, if you haven't seen it yet, I read your poem on your other [great!] site, and commented there too.)
Take care. ~s.
awesome images...
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