Emotions
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Vows
The vows are read out One by one We commit ourselves to our Saviour And He commits to us But we lose our way Go down wrong paths Break every single vow Leaving wounds in His heart We chase after love Offered without commitment But they choose to damage us To treat us like equipment Continue reading
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Light & Dark
A haiku on hope Darkened memoriesA swirling sphere of sorrow Find the pearl within Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Haiku, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
Self Condemnation
Self-condemnation Self-lashing Internal cruelness Relentless bashing We spew harsh words In hope they lead to change But the agony of self-blame Leads us to fall again We have been taught That only fear or guilt can motivate And yet the reality is They can’t free, only incarcerate We do just enough To ease the burden Continue reading
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Dark Writing
I wish I could write poems That were flowery and soft That were elegant and graceful That didn’t have such a cost Imagine if I could write poems That would dance to a nice tune That would twirl in colourful dresses That into roses, would bloom But my poems are harsh Twang like poorly tuned Continue reading
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The Coal Mine
Trapped in a coal mine The exit blocked by rock Every shuddering blow To my arm, an electric shock I am armed with nothing But a single pickaxe It chips away slowly Only forming small cracks Echoing between the blows I hear my enemy’s laughter I hear his goons partying Clinking glasses with their master Continue reading
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Cruelty
That was cruel An unprompted attack A savage assault That left me cracked A shard of pain Pierced into my side A terrible black mist That left me blind No memory or thought Was the trigger for this There is no logical reason For the appearance of this abyss Just the cruelty Of this twisted Continue reading
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Hidden Trauma
There is blackness in my heart It rests in peaceful sleep It is borne from my trauma Raised by bitterness and grief Mostly it lies there Hidden, out of sight But when certain pressure points are pressed The blackness starts to arise It is triggered by certain memories Or by words spoken out of turn Continue reading
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The Puppet
The strings are pulled delicately The puppet twirling into a dance Its flailing limbs, powerless to resist Its taunting captor’s commands But my God You saw my humiliation The entangled lies in my mind You cut me free from what trapped me And healed the hurt that was inside You strengthened my weak arms And Continue reading
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Dark Place
That was a dark place I suddenly realise My mind was numbed out And my eyes were blind It’s like waking from a nightmare That has been going on for years Realising it is not raining That the streaming waters are your tears It’s like looking at a mirror At a different version of you Continue reading
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Burn the Bridges
Burn the bridges To your old life Cut the ropes With Hope’s knife The old thoughts That creep like mould That condemn, that judge That love to scold Burn them in a fire In a deep pit in the ground Revel in their destruction As their tortured voices sound Your old ways have been shed Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 