God
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The Past’s Claws
The past has clawsAnd an iron-tight gripIt is a venus flytrapA bottomless pit I have felt its touchA cold shiver in the nightIt lurks in my mindHidden just out of sight It shadows my dayA sentient cloudSpawning in the skyWhenever I feel proud It has laid a claim to my lifeA right to my soulIt has the keys Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, Forgiveness, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
Rest and Reading
The noise in my head Is finally gone The winter nights Giving way to the dawn The heat on my back Is beginning to cool And that pain in my chest Is not quite as cruel The fear at my heels Is being left behind And that knot of tension Is starting to subside I Continue reading
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Adversity Is Not The End
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 Continue reading
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Authenticity
A lament We wear the mask Until we forget who we are We take the real us And hide it in a jar We follow their script Until we forget our voice We follow their directions Until they become our choice We play their game so long Jumping through every hoop That we forget it’s Continue reading
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Ink Blots
A short poem on forgiveness Ink drips in blots Onto the crisp, white pages Our mistakes leave a mark Only Christ can erase it Continue reading
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Realisation

I have only just realised Have only begun to see That no one sees the pain That is buried within me No one can grasp How deeply it pierces Or begin to comprehend How it rips me to pieces My subjective experience Is locked up inside me All of this time I had thought That Continue reading
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Agony

This is painful This hurts It’s building up within me I am about to burst A bitter taste in the mouth A dark mist over the eyes A searing pain in the chest Endless screaming in my mind I can let it overwhelm me Or I can harness its force Take hold of this black Continue reading
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The Surging Sea

I am a raging storm A surging sea A violent squall A fury unleashed I have been tied down In the darkest depths In the cold, murky waters For centuries, I have slept Sorrow was my chains Depression, my underwater guard Anxiety crawled all over me Inflicting me with scars But now I rise Soaring Continue reading
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Overthinking

There is a voice in my head That sounds like my own Undermining my beliefs Like water eroding stone It casts doubt On everything that I think It brews a cup of uncertainty Which it forces me to drink It had me turning in circles With contradicting instructions Flooded my mind with theories So I Continue reading
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Wind Vanes

What are emotions? What do they mean? Is there method in the madness? Is there more to them than it seems? They are wind vanes Interpreting the flow of our lives Are we heading in the right direction? Staying true to what is inside? But sometimes they can be gusts That blow us off track Continue reading
