Poems on Life and Death - TUC's Top 6 - The Unprecedented Cult

A major part of our blog is dedicated to raw poetry and songs. Considering you would have read our Bricklayer’s Story, you would appreciate the themes chosen for the poems and songs on this webspace. The writings are inspired by dark emotions and experiences, and so naturally, we have a chunk of poems and songs related to the topic of life and death.

In this post, I will try to highlight some of the best poems from the TUC archives that I think truly bring out the essence of life and death.

#1 – Death of you: A Betrayal

This poem is very close to my heart. It is one of those poems that truly brings out the essence of life and death. It portrays exactly what I feel on most of the days. The poem highlights life, death, depression, misery, and anger as part of losing a loved one. It talks about the persistent dreams and memories of the death of the loved one.

A sad angel in the cemetery kneeling on a grave and thinking depicting past memories of death and misery.

I walk
the empty halls of my home,
searching for you
behind each door.
I sense a fear
inside my heart,
but still can’t stop
from finding out where you are.

I get a glimpse of you in that room,
and you’re frozen and cold
lying on the floor.
I can hear
the crying voices of the unknown,
but can’t hear
the storm inside, hitting the core.

I try to touch you,
but you turn into ashes
every single time.
I want to hug you
and cry out loud,
but you fade away saying “I’m fine”.

Tell me,
why you broke my will?
Should I even love you anymore?

Tell me,
why you left behind your memories?
If I had a choice,
I would ask for death and be with you till eternity.

I don’t know
to be sad or angry?
You left me with broken promises
and everything left to be concealed.
The regrets and the hurt
now stay with my misery,
I don’t want to see your face
because you betrayed me.

#2 – Apocalypse: Death At Work

One of the most intense poems on life and death. This poem is about war, life, and death. It depicts the scene of a massacre in a battlefield. Death is used as a Euphemism for the gory and brutal killings. The poem depicts the pain and thoughts of a soldier who has to see known people around him dying but can’t do anything.

A skeleton with a black robe and clutching scythe depicting life and death.

There is no escape,
you always come back
and cut me through.
It always seems
like an everlasting rain,
I dream of the sunny skies,
but am drenched in pain.

You’ve taken
what’s left in me,
my heart is cold
and the mind in disbelief.
All the world around me
has fallen apart,
you bring the apocalypse,
and dig my scars.

The flowers on the windows
have wilted,
an eternal eclipse of you
has brought sickness.
You laugh at the misery,
you have no empathy,
you feed on the weak,
and you know no mercy.

Will your thirst ever end?
Will you ever bend?

I stopped praying
when you became a known enemy,
I feel nothing
when you stand in front of me.

Why am I the one
to see all of this carnage?
Why do you take away my words
and leave me in this mess?
The destruction you bring
is too much to take,
I put up a face,
but the sanity underneath me fades.

I know,
I can’t stop you,
you’re stronger
than anything in this world,
though you obey
what he says,
but don’t run down
and devise such a massacre.

Give me a reason
for this miserable life?
Give me a reason
why I can’t die?
Give me a reason
why I can’t be free?
Give me an end
that I want to see.

Show me the peace
I’ve been trying to find all my life,
because every time we cross paths,
you gift a grave where my loved ones lie.

#3 – Cold of the sun: Beyond Life

A poem that talks about the life of a depressed person and how he is not able to find redemption even after his death. It is one of the poems that transcend life and death.

A man out in the cold under the grey skies and looking at the destruction around him depicting life and death, and misery in afterlife.

I feel nothing, no more,
the suffering, the pain,
the fight,
the wounds in my core.

Lying there,
I see myself in white,
the laws of life,
I finally defy.

The light merges,
in the darkness of my mortality,
the silence speaks,
the unspoken words of my reality.

There are no more lies,
hurt and screams,
just the lost radiance,
left for them to see.

These chains,
a part of me,
will not break
clutched by eternity.

The blood,
the breath, the soul,
they make sense,
no more.

The bright day-light,
the open skies,
the essence of life,
have left me buried in the ground,
that warmth,
is now nowhere to be found.

Emotionless,
I chase my shadows,
still undone,
searching for the clarity,
in the cold of the sun!

#4 – Empty Spaces: The Time

This poem focusses on how one feels when he/she loses a loved one. It is about the misery of a person who lost an important person in life but still hasn’t come to terms with it.

A man in the dark with hands on his face showcasing pain and misery.

How can I bring back,
the time I lost because of you?
the present I needed to live,
but I gave it all to you.

How can I deny,
the voices I needed to hear?
How could you be so rude,
leaving me in a pain I couldn’t bear?

It feels like yesterday,
but I’ve grown old,
I’m still counting the empty spaces,
and a void I behold.

How can I deny,
I was stubborn and foolish?
but the path I was walking then,
was my only wish.

Every single day
feels like a year,
I’m still picking up the pieces,
and live in fear.

I’m tired of the life you created,
and I am broken,
I need a cure
to give me back what was stolen.

How am I going to get back up,
when there is a beast chained underneath my skin?
and the scars,
they drill deep down and revive my sins.

Can someone save me
from the hell, I am in?
The pain and misery
have made me a slave of my own guilt.

How can I make my heartbeat
walk the path of positivity?
because with these empty spaces,
my life is left incomplete.

#5 – Blood in my veins: Life Without You

A sad poem on depression, misery, and emotions. It depicts the miserable state of a person when he/she loses someone close.

A boy alone watching the sunset and lost in thoughts showcasing depression and misery.

I know
when I lost myself along the way,
that dreadful cold night
of a December day.
I’ve lost
so much love in this perennial life,
I’ve tried to find,
but
I’m still stuck and love deprived.

When I look back,
I still try to reach out to you,
but
an unprecedented reality has befriended you,
a truth comprehended by only a few.

Every breath of me
disbelieves,
every drop of blood
and the cell of which I’m made,
hates those memories.

I thought
I’ll rise back again without you,
but,
my fate was written,
a hurdle I had to go through.

Lost within,
I have lived in a dark pit,
I don’t know
when a part of me became so cold and sadist.

The pain feels so sweet,
the dark thoughts,
they run through my veins, an addiction,
I have lived
and prayed only for affliction.

You gave me
this loneliness,
and went away
to seek holiness.
The guilt inside,
has made it worst,
I still think,
what am I doing here, where I don’t deserve?

I’ve tried so hard
to let go,
but this broken soul
reminds me of you,
Tell me why can’t death set me free?
Tell me why I feel so black and uneasy?

Some
unasked questions,
and
some untold answers have become vain,
the misery of you
is now deeply infused in my veins,
the face of you
shows me the birth of my pain,
and every day I wake up,
the life inside of me slowly seems to fade.

#6 – When you closed your eyes: The Misery

This poem is heart-wrenching. It depicts the parents’ miserable state and sorrow who lost their child. The poem emanates a father’s feelings.

A flower on a grave depicting death of a loved one. As a whole it represents life and death of a person.

She puts a strong face
all the times,
she weeps under the pillow
in the depths of the night.

She runs in the hallway
at the sound of your voice,
she checks your room
a thousand times.

She still looks through the glass
waiting for you to return,
she cooks in misery
and often gets burned.

She smiles to fight her demons
and in a minute crumbles,
she clutches your picture close to her heart,
and it makes her fall apart.

She looks at the stars in the grey skies
and searches for that brightest light,
she talks about you all the times
and how you made us smile,
she looks at me with the eyes of hope,
as we live in the silence of empty rooms.

It was the best day of our life
when you had opened your eyes,
felt so surreal
as you held my fingers tight,
the tears of joy
trickled down my face,
the smiles you wore
could never be replaced.

Never got hold,
how quickly you grew,
and when you became our sunshine,
and our moon.

I still ring the bell
waiting for you to open the door,
I still hear your feet
running across the floor.

I sit at the table
gazing at nothing across,
and smiling endlessly
at your words, that now are lost.

The home seems in ruins
without your smiles,
and the silence cuts through us
like a sharp knife.

We somewhere wait
for the time to reverse,
wish we had the power
to save you from that curse.

Will still fight
for our lives to revive,
but, a part of us already died
the day you closed your eyes.

That’s the wrap-up. These are my top 6 poems on life and death. Let me know which poems top your list in the comment section below.

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