Emotions
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Pain on Paper
It’s time The moment has come To inflict some pain onto some paper And to get this over and done You’re hiding in there somewhere It is time to come out Time to shine the light on you And to start working this out This pen gives me power Gives me X-ray vision to my Continue reading
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The System
The system we live in Needs you depressed Needs you unsatisfied Sent on an impossible quest It has to make sure That you feel inadequate And make you feel you’re always One step from happiness It does this to sell you A momentary relief Temporarily easing the pain But storing up the grief It has Continue reading
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Old Wounds
Old wounds Left to bleedKept uncovered So they won’t recede We scratch off the scabs Leave them on display We can’t face the healing The long journey of pain Let them be washed And bound up with love Let recovery take place Receive hope from above Continue reading
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A Writer’s Curse
You burn inside me Torture my soul Like a hot iron A pile of fiery coals I think of you through the day In my sleep, you speakWhen I think of you, I hurt I need you like I breathe Only on paper Are you able to live Inside the walls of my mind You Continue reading
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Anticipation of Pain
A lament I know what awaits me The pain, the fear I know the struggle What it takes to get through here Don’t make me pretend Force me to smile I dread this more than anything Even if it is worthwhile I will swallow the pill And tolerate its taste I will brace myself for Continue reading
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Anchor Around My Neck
Anchor around my neck Will you lighten a little? Must you weigh me down? My joy always cripple? Can I get a few minutes To catch my breath? Because the harder I struggle The heavier you get When I try to straighten up You pull me down again You mock my efforts You laugh at Continue reading
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Hollow Reed
I am the outsider The different one here I am the writer The wordsmith extraordinaire I weave complex patternsIn the recesses of my mind Scribble abstract equations To work out what is going on inside I am a hollow reed That wails as the wind blows I am mourning church bells Echoing with resonant tone Continue reading
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Will Things Change?
A lament Deep agony in my bones Must I live with this forever? Or will the ties to this condition Once and for all, be severed? Must I always have to push past The pain in my soul? Will I ever know what it feels like To be made healed and whole? Will I always Continue reading
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Hope and Fear 2
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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Darkened Letters
Darkened letters Shaded by despair Traumatised words The paper, they tear Rivers of pain Flow from my fingertips Ink black tears From my eyes, they drip Swallowed by darkness And a fountain of grief I fell into grace And He gave me His peace Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 