'Sweet Melodies' By Barbara Gonzalez: Poem Analysis

Sweet Melodies By: Barbara Gonzalez

There’s a sweet melody ringing in my ears. It wakes me from a nightmare I’ve always lived in. This enchantment takes me into a place unseen. This place, where I am now walking, is barren and lonely. Yet, in my ears I still hear the sweet melody. These shadows engulf me, but I am not scared.

There is a dark figure standing in the middle of nowhere, I hear it breathe and another sweet melody comes from him. And as it usually happens hope rises within me. These shadows vary in colors and shapes and all of them together form a rainbow of darkness, if such a thing even exists.

Now I’m alone with the dark figure, towering shadows, and a rainbow in gray tones, and the sweet melody continues. A tear forms in my

My life beckons me to return, we hold each other tight and promise to be together forever. Then the darkness turns to chaos and the light overcomes the shadows.

I find myself in my home, alive. I miss Death. Should I kill myself and be reunited with Death? I ponder the meaning of my existence. I fight my desire to be with Death. I walk, again, in my nightmares. I am slowly missing Death more and more as time passes and I feel its power during the day.

I feel Death near at night under the Moon’s glistening light. I know for sure that in dying I will be reunited with Death.

But now that I am alive, I am going to help out the living. I will live my life to help out those who are suffering, thus making Death’s job easier. Death has always needed me, but for now life needs me too.

Now the night is sparkling with thousands of stars and an enchanting moon. I quietly gaze at the night and the silver moonlight sneaks into my room like a welcomed guest and the cold air wraps itself around me leaving me in a faraway place of shadows. Another sigh escapes my heart which seems fully aches for peace and quiet.

It doesn’t matter how much peace I crave form I am slowly crumbling inside; where the voice of my subconscious speaks to me when every other sound decides to remain

For some reason the air around me is colder and my body begins to shake uncontrollably, I feel more tiered by the moment, I’m grasping for hope and at the same time gasping in terror.

I shut my eyes to no avail since all I see is a pair of wickedly slit red eyes staring back at me. I try blinking it away but now every time I close my eyes it’s all I can see.

“Leave me alone” I try to whisper out loud hoping to break the silent spell but instead my throat tightens and every breath I take feels like a scrape from my lungs.

It laughs, taking simple pleasure in watching my life falter. Life? I wonder why Life always lets me suffer. Death would have been more kind.

It laughs again. I never knew I could hate a laugh. I try closing my eyes but again all I see are those evil eyes.

I don’t understand how this demon has slipped into my thoughts, spreading like a virus and slowly taking over. The roaring laughter feels more like waves pushing against me.

“No!!” I cry desperately wishing to be somewhere else. I try to stand up, looking around for a way to escape. In my desperation I twirl trying to find a way out and the walls start closing in. For the second time in my lifetime I question if this is my