Bitterness
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Reluctant Poet
I never wanted this To be a poet To write my darkest emotions So others could know it I would have liked to have been Just like everyone else But it had to be me That went through this hell For my mind to crumple As waves of emotions batter it For my train of… Continue reading
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Don’t Pity Me
A lament I don’t need your pity Your kind, empty words My pain is rotting meat Your words, tasteless herbs Don’t deflect, don’t divert The blood-stained flows of my heart If it is too much for you to bear Please don’t bother to ask I don’t want people To feel sorry for me To gawp… Continue reading
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Too Late
A lament Don’t tell me now That you’ve always appreciated me Don’t tell me now Of the things you like about me Now that I am no longer Hiding my pain Don’t belittle me With these kind refrains You mean you liked me But never said While I had all these voices Insulting me in… Continue reading
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Doesn’t Anyone Care?
Doesn’t anyone want to knowWhat I have inside? Is there anyone in this earth With who I can share my mind? Why am I alwaysOn the outside of the circle? Forced to earn acceptance By climbing over hurdles Deep inside of me Thrashed ideas and words They bellowed in rage at me That they were… Continue reading
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Black Poison
I spit black poison Out of my mouth A venomous river Winding its way south It’s an overflow From my tortured heart Injected with misery By events so dark They are harsher than I truly mean But I can’t hold back When I paint this scene I must let the anger The bitterness pour out… Continue reading
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Cut Adrift
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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Believing Again
I can’t see the end To this relentless climb I am not sure if I will ever See the morning sun rise I have fought fearsome foes In abandoned castles of dark I have heard misery’s whispers In the centre of my heart I have crossed bleak landscapes Where my blood turned ice cold I… Continue reading
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Why Me?
Why me? Why now? Why so long? Do I lack power? Do I lack resilience? Do I need to be tougher? Why is it me That always has to suffer? Why these dark feelings Around every corner? Why has life conspired To make each day harder? Why these dark days? Why does the sun hide?… Continue reading
Anger, Bitterness, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust, Writing -
Desert Flower
Desert winds blow Bringing dryness and death The budding flower cracks In this blast of hot breath There is no shelter The soft petals are ripped Pink torn into brown shreds As the plant is slowly stripped The dry winds ease And the swirling sands drop And the flower can now see What it has… Continue reading
Bitterness, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust, Writing -
Cost of Recovery
I resent it This brutal climb The pain I feel Each time I rise I know it’s worthwhile That freedom is at the top But does the climb to get there Have to cost so much? It burns my insides Makes me retch in pain But I do not want to live with The pain… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 