Anger Anxiety Authenticity Bitterness Christ Christian Poetry Depression Determination Disappointment Easter Emotions faith Fear Forgiveness Friendship God Gratitude Guilt Haiku Healing Hope Joy Lament Love Pain Perfectionism Perspective Poetry Pride Reading Redemption Regret Rejection Rumination Shame Temptation Thankfulness Trauma Trust Truth Worship Writing
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Dawn & Dusk Intro
I write poems of light and dark. From the darkness of my experience of depression to the light of my faith and hope in Jesus Christ. On some days, my poems feel like a brightening dawn. On others, like a deepening dusk. But always I hold on to the truth. That the light will overcome Continue reading
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Authenticity
A lament We wear the mask Until we forget who we are We take the real us And hide it in a jar We follow their script Until we forget our voice We follow their directions Until they become our choice We play their game so long Jumping through every hoop That we forget it’s Continue reading
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Ink Blots
A short poem on forgiveness Ink drips in blots Onto the crisp, white pages Our mistakes leave a mark Only Christ can erase it Continue reading
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Realisation
I have only just realised Have only begun to see That no one sees the pain That is buried within me No one can grasp How deeply it pierces Or begin to comprehend How it rips me to pieces My subjective experience Is locked up inside me All of this time I had thought That Continue reading
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Agony
This is painful This hurts It’s building up within me I am about to burst A bitter taste in the mouth A dark mist over the eyes A searing pain in the chest Endless screaming in my mind I can let it overwhelm me Or I can harness its force Take hold of this black Continue reading
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The Surging Sea
I am a raging storm A surging sea A violent squall A fury unleashed I have been tied down In the darkest depths In the cold, murky waters For centuries, I have slept Sorrow was my chains Depression, my underwater guard Anxiety crawled all over me Inflicting me with scars But now I rise Soaring Continue reading
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Overthinking
There is a voice in my head That sounds like my own Undermining my beliefs Like water eroding stone It casts doubt On everything that I think It brews a cup of uncertainty Which it forces me to drink It had me turning in circles With contradicting instructions Flooded my mind with theories So I Continue reading
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Wind Vanes
What are emotions? What do they mean? Is there method in the madness? Is there more to them than it seems? They are wind vanes Interpreting the flow of our lives Are we heading in the right direction? Staying true to what is inside? But sometimes they can be gusts That blow us off track Continue reading
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The Black Bird 2
I am angry I am hurt I lived my life Haunted by a black bird A dark shadow Over my shoulder Its screeching cries Making me shiver It stood at my bedpost During the night Built a nest in my skull To rest from its flight It chased me around In fear for so long Continue reading
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The Black Bird
A lament Knife edged talons Black as night And wings, such wings They blot out the light It descends With a terrible cry A bloodcurdling scream That twists the insides A clawed dark cloud Imbued with fears My eyes darken With blood-red tears Each wing’s beat A vicious hurricane As it drags its victim Back Continue reading
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Dark Circle
Dark circle In my brain Drags me beneath The waves again Thoughts revolving I can’t make them stop Jagged voices rising Mine is on the top A black halo Placed on my head Gyrating patterns encrypted With the words that they said Despair’s cylinder Drips black ink As slowly into Its circumference I sink Dark Continue reading
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