--- title: The Curse date: 2013-07-30T07:27:40Z modified: 2024-11-01T02:36:22Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/curse/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1359 categories: - Life Poems - Sad Poems tags: - Life Poems - Sad Poems - life featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/curse_of_life.jpg" featured_image_alt: Curse of Life author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2024-11-01T02:36:22Z --- far away in the distant horizon, the sun slowly starts to set and makes way for the dark, moonless night;![Curse of Life](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/curse_of_life-240x300.jpg) the wind gently gathers pace and starts to howl, awakening the demons within and outside, rousing them from their day-long slumber; as i look in the mirror, the pain surges through my veins, slowly at first and then as it gathers steam, i realize i am going insane; my heart beats [echo](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/echoes-of-midnight-love.md) through the empty room, my heavy breathing resonates through the house, my head starts to spin as the thoughts come flooding in; i feel i am dying, i see nothing, i feel the end is getting closer and closer, tears crash into the floor, creating a puddle; holding to every little ounce of strength, i try to claw my way back into the world, but the [emotions](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/lonely-emotions.md) invade my head, wrapped in a blanket of darkness; painfully i hold on, trying to pull myself up from this curse of [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/numb.md), as [the dark](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md), gloomy night gently fades away;