The emotions of a poet who calls himself 
"Uootem"

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"the nightmare"

@Uootem

life's journey
    once taken through heaven's streets
                                            now a nightmare,
that once upon a time lost...
                  could hell be far distant?
                                        a place filled with
                              darkened corners
                                            where memory's shadows inhabit
                                an unfurnished room
                                                        whitewashed with the absence
                          of illumination of a youthful love...
                                                      once pleasant emotions
                              thrashing at my soul
                                                tainted remorse in my heart
                                  confront the rest of my days.

cold drops of tears
            aroused with the pain of loss
                                      escape my eyes and
                  cascade in a plunging to earth.
                                              dark and ever-changing storm clouds
                                    a strange skyscape
            never envisioned before.
                                        a yearning within my heart
                never invited... never anticipated...
                                                      haunted by realities
                              too hostile... too coldhearted
                                                        to smile upon me.

a pure white page in hand 
                          I gaze into its blandness...
                                                  oh, how many times before
                                      this torment of needing to write
              to relieve the burning
                                      of words trying to escape
                                this present day world
                                                  with utterings of emotion
                                        first one line... and the next...
                        a thousand times repeated
                                                      in the coldness of day
                                                in conflict
                                with a warmth in my heart
            I feel (at most) sated halfway between,
                                                  writing of the nothing that remains..
                                  as I step a little closer
          to that which was everything.