Gratitude
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Golden River
A golden river Flowing in my heart Soothes my pain Brings me a new start A dark past Transformed into light A torturous agony lifted Now I am in flight The wounds my enemy brought To bring me misery Are now everlasting reminders Of how he failed to stop me No matter the challenges ahead 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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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
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Bleak Landscape
My mind is a bleak landscape Not by design Scattered with corpses Once dreams of mine A famine came one day It never left It dried my rivers Left me for dead Dust storms roam The sunlight, they cloakI am stalked by fear On hopelessness, I choke I laid my bleakness Before the Lord And Continue reading
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This Precious Moment
There is hope after all I can finally see That to live in the moment Is all that I need No longer should I wallow In the regrets of my past Or pine after a future That, even if attained, wouldn’t last Sandwiched between These two great rocks of time Is a tiny sliver Into Continue reading
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Whispering Snakes
Shameful whisperings Encircle like hissing snakes Corrode my belief And undermine my faith They sing in my dreams A spiteful tune of woe They slither under my skin They go everywhere I go These snakes bind my hands And wrap around my neck They warn me never to speak Or my life they will wreck Continue reading
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Hope in my Heart
I feel it inside Brightening my heart The dawn of a new era The hope of a new start Enemies pierced me Until I could cry no more Now redemption is on the horizon Sent forth by my Lord In the darkest night And the most cutting pain I have a joy I can turn Continue reading
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I See Galaxies
Do you know what it is like To see for the first time? Do you know what it is like To be brought back to life? To feel the breeze And smell the scents?To feel hope rising From the darkest of depths? I was locked in a dark place Starved of all that was good Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 