Gratitude
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Grateful
Every inhale Every exhale The breath in our lungs Every pulsation Every relaxation The flow of blood in our veins Every articulation Every comprehension The connection between us Every sun rise Every night sky The chance to treasure it all Continue reading
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Joy
Joy erupting A well of emotion Tears brimmingThe first drops of an ocean That feeling when You taste the sweet truth When years of deception Are revealed to you Wrists no longer numb No longer bound by chains The fog has cleared And so has the pain It was a journey That lasted so long… Continue reading
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Doesn’t Anyone Care?
Doesn’t anyone want to knowWhat I have inside? Is there anyone in this earth With who I can share my mind? Why am I alwaysOn the outside of the circle? Forced to earn acceptance By climbing over hurdles Deep inside of me Thrashed ideas and words They bellowed in rage at me That they were… Continue reading
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Words
Words dancing On the tip of my pen On the tip of my tongue A river of black ink Poems flowing From the darkness of dusk From the brightness of dawn Daily rhythms re-synced Stories baking In the heat of my passion In the furnace of my heart My imagination expanding Spirit flowing In the… Continue reading
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Friends
Our everyday melody Laughter dancing on their tongues Shimmering notes Erupting from their lungs The prism that splits Our rays of light The mundane becomes a myriad Expanding our spectrum of sight They break our box of mirrors So we can see the world again Point out the linings of hope Within our storm clouds… Continue reading
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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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Not Forgotten
Not forgotten Not alone No longer broken No longer forlorn Not irredeemable Not a reject No longer ashamed No longer a wreck Not too far gone Not a hopeless case Not a dirty stain That needs to be erased Not an imposter I am not lesser I am not simply someone’s project To try and… Continue reading
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Words As Weapons
I use words as weapons To slash this paper So something else can feel The storms I have weathered I use words as tools To mould this inner man To build a new foundation Made of rock, not of sand I use words as drumsticks My heart, the deep, thudding drum The rhythm shows my… Continue reading
Anger, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
Mosaic
You weaved my dark notes Into your symphony You took my misshapen works And somehow found symmetry You incorporated my falls Into Your dance You took my defeated posture Made it the opening stance You restyled my ageing architecture From archaic to classic You took my broken pieces And made a mosaic Continue reading
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A Golden Day
A golden day In a sea of black When the light seeps out Through a little crack A day when I feel like I am floating on clouds And those stormy rain ones Are nowhere to be found When the only weight on my head Is that of a crown And my weeping heart For… Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust, Writing
Dawn & Dusk 