Christ
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Bleak Landscape (repost)
My mind is a bleak landscape Not by design Scattered with corpses Once dreams of mine A famine came one day It never left It dried my rivers Left me for dead Dust storms roam The sunlight, they cloakI am stalked by fear On hopelessness, I choke I laid my bleakness Before the Lord And… Continue reading
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Rainbow
You hung Your rainbowOver my fieldsSo my fallow groundWould finally be healed For a rainbow meansBoth light and rainIn sufficient abundanceTo form this display Dark clouds had loiteredOver me for yearsAnd yet the only downpourHad been my tears But now by Your mercyYou’ve helped me to knowThat my honest tears meansNow my crops can grow… Continue reading
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Whispering Snakes (repost)
Shameful whisperings Encircle like snakes Corrode my belief And undermine my faith They sing in my dreams A spiteful tune of woe They slither under my skin They go everywhere I go These snakes bind my hands And wrap around my neck They warn me not to speak Or my life they will wreck But… Continue reading
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Chrysalis (repost)
Metamorphosis or mutation?A chrysalis or a cage?A life reaching its end Or the beginning of a new stage? I must trust in Him Within these dark walls As pain afflicts me From my back, things crawl None can see the changes No, not even me Until the chrysalis cracks And I fly free Originally posted… Continue reading
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River of Gold
In a shimmering land Of beauty untold Flows a wonderful river Of endless gold I was told That I must travel Search high and low To encounter this marvel So I crossed Burning sands And passed through Dark and treacherous lands But when I needed That river the most It searched for me So I… Continue reading
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Cathedral of Joy
Cathedral of joy Such iridescence Its blooms of elation Give a pure, sweet essence My glowing beacon A communal rock Accepts even the haunting Of a night-time fox Beaming boulevards Bend to reach Yearning to lead to That beloved street Raindrops patter Tap on stained glass Asking if they will be Let in at last… Continue reading
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Broken Table
A poem on restoration Splintered wood Cracks spreading This is the momentThe table has been dreading A shuddering collapseLegs buckle and break As the table crumples Under its own weight But this tragic tableOnce broken by pain Will be rebuilt by His hands And will stand again Continue reading
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Adversity is not the End (repost)
Though the fire burns,It will not consume me Though the flood rises, It will not drown me Though the wind howls, It will not stop me Though the lightning flashes, It will not blind me Though the storm rages, It will not engulf me Though the lava encircles, It will not entrap me Though the… Continue reading
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Ocean of Doubt
I felt adrift In this mindless ocean Each wave a voice Begging me to listen They urged me to chase Riches and fame That these would be The antidote to my shame I drowned in this cacophony Of utter nonsense Each wave driven By a desire for profits So in the depths I quietened my… Continue reading
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Perfectionism
Crack went the whip Anytime I stoppedIt bit like a viper So hard to shake off Every seat was a flame Every bed laced with nails Rest was the charge An arrest with no bail It read my to-do list When I tried to go to sleep When I collapsed to the ground It dragged… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 