The Abyss (with Figurative language Labeling)

The Abyss

The seas so blue with azure tints

The sky as red as the sun

They came-- the agents of destruction

To end our reign of none

They took  our mothers our fathers our sons

I wonder…. will they take me--

Into the black abyss

My fright of them, great

My friends, gone

I try to fend them off

So I won’t fall into that black abyss

My people’s innocence matters less to the agents

They  try to fight--

They try to hide--

From the black abyss

I am left alone in my land

Everyone gone ‘cept me

I trip and scrape my knee and they attack

Trying to grab me into that black abyss

I lay there

Too weak to move

Too weak to fight

 I give up

To the black abyss

I awake to my family standing around me

That wasn't real--

It was a nightmare--

But what is the black abyss

I ponder it for many years

Doing test after test

Finally, after many years of fear

Of the black abyss

On a midsummer evening

My beard long and white

I found out

By slipping into the black Abyss                        

This, I think, is a great example of lots of figurative language. It has many Similes such as, “The sky as red as the sun.” the job of a Simile is to compare two things with like, or as. This fabulous poem also has examples of metaphors, like, “The Black Abyss.” The Black Abyss is what this guy had been going toward all this life, which is, Death. ‘The Black Abyss; also has human traits (personification)  making it able to travel and making it look like an unstoppable army (which it is).  It also had a lot of rhythm making it sound like a old Fashioned lay.  I didn't Spot any other Figurative language.