I recently found Beau Allen’s poetry blog.  It is fully of finely crafted poems and I genuinely encourage you to click on the link and read them.  The post I link to is about a collection called Whispers in the Dark.  These poems do indeed have a darkness and even in the ones where no word of hope or relief are written, simply writing them is an act of hope.  Even a whisper makes the dark less.

Beau Allen: Whispers in the Dark