Response to the Raven

As dark as night has ever been As harsh as winter's winds descend And echoe their time told tale Of life and your supposed fail Nevermore! Nevermore! Quoth that dark raven for Lenore Nevermore! Nevermore! A lie filled with guile and horror Your problems are unsolvable Your woes, so insurmountable Nevermore! Nevermore! In misery your life reborn Or so it calls, that wicked feathery thing Which flies at night into your saddest dreams Which taps so faintly while you ponder things of old Then comes and perches on a statue so immovable With a heart of contempt so entirely reproachable The cry, a fable, cannot be believed It comes only to wound the broken heart It comes to aid the bleeding and stop your pain receding With a lying blade it stabs at that most tender part Your ache is not unending Swiftly it can be rescinding So when you next are pondering o'er curious, forgotten lore And you hear that soft tapping, a quiet gentle rapping Tis a visitor and nothing more Ignore it, do not open up your door *this poem was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven". It is quoted in this poem.