Bitterness
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Close The Door
A lament Close the door Turn off the lights Snuff the candles And embrace the night Tear down the lampposts Crack each light Break the lanterns Let the darkness inside Let no joy be heard Let laughter be banned Twist every hint of a smile Into the deepest of frowns No jokes, only tragedy No Continue reading
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Pain
I feel an emptiness Lying deep inside My soul has been ripped out By the brutality of the fight Feelings have had to be cast aside So I can stay afloat My perspective narrowed So on the pain, I don’t choke I have had no time To acknowledge my scars No time to process The Continue reading
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Bitter Gall
You make me drink the bitter gall It’s poison to my soul You drain life of its goodness Bury me in a deep hole You show me only sadness When there is joy to be found You rain down torrents of misery Weigh me down to the ground But your filter’s faulty It shows me Continue reading
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Cruel Words
Dark whisperings Incessant chanting Echo in my head My thoughts supplanting They chop down The tree of my esteem And smear mud all over The paintings of my inner dreams The words repeat Until they make me sing Their wretched tune Like church bells ring They’ve built their case Convinced me they were true Said Continue reading
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Disappointment
Black pills gleaming Time for the daily dose Thrashing in the water Its vapours form thick smoke I know its taste Its bitter afterburn The spasms in the stomach As it begins to churn Two steps forward Three steps back I know the rhythm And pattern of this dance Time has conditioned me Steeled me Continue reading
Anger, Anxiety, Bitterness, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Writing -
Facing Disappointment
A crushing darkness All around A bone-chilling silence That smothers all sound This is what life is like After so many rounds of despair The sharpest of agonies Is that of a soul rent bare It darkens your mind Darkens your very soul It sucks the joy out of everything Erodes your drive towards your Continue reading
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Dark Colours
I prepare the paint Venom blacks and brooding greys There will be no light colours On my palette today I will whip up a tempest With this tortured paintbrush Create a whirlpool of misery Into which I am sucked To the howling nights I will yield my soul Let that dark fury Be expressed in Continue reading
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Struggling
A lament I am exhausted I am run down I fight every day To pick myself off the ground The duvet wraps around me In an iron grip My legs are weak and trembling My mind can barely think Every day I dig deeper Into reserves I didn’t know I had Every day I find Continue reading
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My Blood is Black
My blood is black And I bleed from pens My tears are black ink Which paper fails to stem I create instead of crying My pains made eternal Hide the dark nights of my soul In the deep cracks of a journal My hand reaches out As I am engulfed by a vapour And my Continue reading
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Trapped Words
Trapped words In my chest Screaming out Still unsaid A myriad of ideas Swirling in my mind I’m running out of space And I’m running out of time This burden of passion Has no outlet It pierces me with sorrow And fills me with regret This childhood dream Lives in my heart Waiting for the Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 