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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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I am not a Zoo Animal
I am tired of people Trying to fix me Of prodding me With endless enquiries Of marvelling at my pain Like it’s an animal in a zoo And discussing among themselves Which techniques they would use Of trying to make me Their pet project Or seeing me as a challenge For their incredible intellect But… Continue reading
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Cut Adrift (repost)
I am adrift on a raft Lost at sea Cast away on an island With no one but me I am in a glass box But the glass is blurred I have given up screaming For I cannot be heard Trapped in a prison Within my own mind My senses stripped away I am deaf,… Continue reading
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The Painful Choice
A lament For what will IEndure this pain?For what will I faceMy trauma again In every interactionIt stirs from its restA splintering knifeIn the centre of my chest If I choose to be realVulnerable and genuineThen for days I will sufferFeel the torture within But if I shield myselfThen I must faceThe distancing of relationshipsAs… Continue reading
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Grey Skies
Once my words Were locked away The sun sunk low And the skies went grey I rotted awayMy passion lost My voice, a stringless harpMy heart, an empty husk In this bleak timeI hid myself away Waiting for wordsTo spring up again And that tide Of beautiful black inkTurned my skies A rosy pink Continue reading
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Rotten
Old milk Stagnates insideCurdling in The recesses of the mind It forms soggy clumps That swell with green mouldPutrid fluids oozing In every fold The brain becomes clogged With this festering messAs envy and jealousy Transform into bitterness Slowly the mind Turns into a gloopAs the head sloshes With this fetid soup Other poems on… Continue reading
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Beacon of Hope
A single flame In misted glass Stood before A vast sea of dark This marauding darkness Was a black beastSearching for flesh On which it could feast But that meagre flame Became a valiant dagger Piercing the beast And killing its power And the little flame danced In the fading nightAs it watched the beast… Continue reading
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Lonely Lighthouse
A lament Lonely lighthouse Dark thoughts cripple Their bony fingers So thick yet supple Brick by brick They tear it down Even as storm clouds Gather round They screech as dreams Crash into the rocks Shriek with glee As sailors cry out in shock The coast is littered With crumpled ships And the capsized are… Continue reading
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Jewels of Jealousy
A wretched ruby Of wrath and rageGlowers in Its fiery cage A bitter ball Of bickering blameSimmers in Jealousy’s cold, blue flames A swirling sphere Of ceaseless sorrowBears grim tidings On the morrow Jewels of jealousy And of judgementGive rise to misery And destruction Continue reading
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The Words are Gone
A lament The words are snatched From the tip of my tongue They turn to ash As they leave my lungs The cogs in my mind Grind to a halt As the words vanish Into a fog Sometimes when I speak The words are switched And they cause damage I don’t know how to fix… Continue reading
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Well of Sorrows
I have in me A well of sorrows Its dampness permeates Seeps into my bones I filled this chasm With wretched tears Hiding them from The scorn of my peers On some days It overflows As ink-stained tears That form into poems So I will let this flow Of tears start So other emotions Can… Continue reading
