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The Storm Inside
A storm swirls Engulfing all I see But a fiercer storm Awakes within me It accelerates far quicker Than the one outside Driven by anxiety At what is before my eyes Fear begins to build Lets rip with roaring thunder Panic flashes in me Lightning bolts of wonder My worries like a whisk Kept my… Continue reading
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Thirst
Quench me But may I always thirst for more Increase my capacity But also my desire for You, Lord Let my heart be an ocean That forever breaks its borders Let my joy be a river That forever flows over When the well within me Becomes a cesspit of despair And the clouds of hope… Continue reading
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Curse or Crown
A young man has an affliction Suffers from a curse It’s been there his whole life He’s had it since birth He can feel your emotions As if they were his own When he sees someone wince His insides groan Describe your situation And he will experience it Open the sorrows of your heart And… Continue reading
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Time
Empires rise and fall Philosophies become outdated People are venerated then forgotten Trends soon thought overrated Inventions become obsolete Traditions instituted then rejected Power gained then lost Hoarded wealth is distributed Years will eventually pass What stands strong will fall Time brings all things to an end Only You God span it all Continue reading
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Prisoner
Do you know what it’s like To be trapped inside? To be held a prisoner Within your own mind? To have skills and abilities That you are unable to reach To be filled with knowledge But be unable to speak For the good things you wish to do To be drowned by sorrow For the… Continue reading
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Grounded
I sink my feet in Into the cement of Your Word It wraps around my legs And in it, I am secured The earth shakes beneath I am buffeted by the tide The four winds of uncertainty Strike me from every side Economies fail and empires fall Predictions miss their mark The unthinkable becomes reality… Continue reading
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I Burned and I Bled
I burned and I bled Was dipped in boiling water Imprisoned in damp cells My feet placed in mortar I felt the stark isolation Of a darkness ever-deepening I felt the force of water Of a tide never retreating I sang songs of woe To empty skies at night Scrawled words of agony In a… Continue reading
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Broken Shoulders
A lament I have held the worldOn my broken shouldersAllowed my body to be usedAs a shield for others I pushed my wounded soul onWhen I wanted to give upKept up the standardsMade sure I did enough I cried out for helpShowed my sorrow to others Tried to show the tortureThat for so long, I… Continue reading
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Garden
Once sin flourished in my life A carpet of twisted weeds But Lord you’ve remade this landscape Planted a host of new seeds But You did not just plant new flowers To try and balance it out You weren’t afraid to confront The deep roots of my doubt You completely uprooted the ground From the… Continue reading
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Frustrations
It’s not all my fault It cannot be No one has put as much effort Into this as me I have opened up My most vulnerable spaces All I have had in return Are cold, empty faces They throw generic solutions At my complex problems Ignored my years of trauma For a simple maths sum… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 