what would be some poetic devices in this song?

Question

Fade To Black

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone

No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

Answer 1

Actually, it's a stretch. "Death greets me" could be personification.

Answer 2

I think it captured the exact feeling of one who has lost a very dear loved one. Even if that loved one is them self. It captures the confusion, sorrow, shock, and the belief that only you can help yourself. It is written with the intensiveness that only one's heart could put into it.! I've been told to write what you feel and feel what you write. This poem has accomplished this without a doubt! Not many poems move me anymore, I've been writing them for 40 years. This is one that expressed my own feeling at one time.

Reading this shows me something I didn't believe before. Someone CAN understand "just how you feel". How many people make that statement after a funeral? I remember thinking "No, you don't know how I feel, nobody can understand".

If you are the one depicted in this poem, talk to someone is my advice and write about your feelings often. Feel free to contact me, I've been where this poem speaks of. If you are the author, congrats! You have moved what I thought to be a heart of stone.

Answer 3

poetic devices...well, there is metaphor (emptiness if filling me...growing darkness taking dawn), there is possibly anthropomorphism (treating death as a living, thinking entity), and there is "rhyme"...that's about it.