Death Songs Volume 1: Death Songs, #1

By N. M. Martin

Some poems expressing pain and the battles that come from living with a mental illness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Staying Strong
• Release date: Mar 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781540183217

N. M. Martin

Just a dude trying to be a good dude. I have a lot in the works. My social media links are on my website, though, I mainly operate from my instagram page with weekly poem clips and singing- @ntqpoetry. If you like my poems please leave a review, I appreciate you!

Book preview

Chapter I

Salvation Seeds

I look up at the man in the moon

I know he sees the pain in my eyes

Says he hopes I get well soon

But holds a wicked grin

I can tell he lies

I call his bluff to take my life

Threatens to kill me with

My own hands and a knife

Talks down

Reinforcing my uselessness

He cannot size me up

I reminisce of the days I was small

Playing on my driveway with a ball

The moon glares back stronger

Defenses fall

I think the happiest of thoughts

Rebuilding my wall

My pen is my sword

My mind a spear

Loved ones seem distant though

In reality could not be more near

To say I am lying about my afflictions

Would not be truthful in the least

Despite all my rage

I am trapped in a cage

Waiting to unleash the beast

I sit contemplating my fallacies

Spun a web so people could not see

The ugly side of me

The lengths I go through

To remain concealed are

Not enough

To this illness I must yield

My mind is ugly

This world cruel

Civilians consume and believe the stigma

Their peers serve them as if gruel

What people think of mental illness

Is an opinion of their own

I simply do good deeds

Plant my seeds

Until my salvation is grown

Holding On

I will hold on

Stay strong

Drop a bomb on mental illness

Expose it

Make sure the world knows of it

Cease the stigma

Cut the cord on this enigma

Take out its knees

Unleash upon him a swarm of bees

Gouge out its eyes

Make the man in the moon cry

Tell of his lies

Blow away the disguise