Determination
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Unseen Voices
You are unseen You are unheard Despite the effort You’ve put into these words I hear these voices Saying it doesn’t matter That the glass ceiling above my head Will never be shattered But I know in my heart That the truth is this I love this struggle Of pen against fist This intense wrestle Continue reading
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From Dawn to Dusk
If you rearrange the word ‘depression‘, you can form the phrase ‘I pressed on’. Sometimes, recovery is just about getting from dawn to dusk without giving up. The sun rises A new day starts But morning for me Is when my heart goes dark A long shadow Is cast over my day As towers of Continue reading
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Failed Foundation
I feel beneath my feet The ruins of a foundation A groundwork that was laid But was completely wasted A life spent But spent in vain Now these stones Are just a source of shame I prepare to break These reminders up But something in me Causes me to stop My failed foundation My so-called Continue reading
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I Once Was a Reader
I used to be a reader A book devourer That ancient being From which words cower I would consume tomes In one fell swoop During the day or the night Well done or uncooked I was a realm traveller Entering endless domains From fantastical lands To the far reaches of space All that was taken Continue reading
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Black Bird
Black bird shadowing My every step Its monstrous shadow Stretching out ahead Black bird hovering Above my head at night Building a nest in my skull To rest from its flight I was its subject For far too long Until I looked up And saw something was wrong Its shadow did not match Its skeletal Continue reading
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Robbery
You stole it from me This hobby that I love You took writing from me As if you weren’t punishment enough You took my dream And crushed it in your hand All the worlds I had imagined You brought to a sudden end Characters I had created Nurtured and watched grow You snatched them in Continue reading
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Perfectionism
A faint whisper In my ear An unsettling feeling A shiver of fear You always tell me That disaster is on its way That I have to do more To keep the destruction at bay You are a phantom Chasing me down dark alleyways You chant constant threats I always feel your blade One day Continue reading
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Hope and Fear
What do you do When hope is your greatest fear? When you fear that anticipation Of getting everything you hold dear? What do you do When you fear the light? When you fear the waking dawn Because it always dips out of sight But once you get over That fear of failure You realise that Continue reading
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Misery’s Pit
My last few poems have talked about the importance of expressing emotions. Here’s why I have learned that I cannot stay there. Some emotions are a trap. I have found that the pit that they dig has no bottom. So I am learning that after I have felt, I evaluate. Then I let go of Continue reading
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Dark Sun
‘The opposite of depression is not happiness. It is vitality.’ Andrew Solomom This poem about depression was inspired by the film Tenet and the above quote by Andrew Solomon. A lament I see cold stars In dark skies Their blue light No warmth provides A black sun rises Radiant dark Light flees into cracks Night Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 