Healing
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Ink Monster
I let the ink monster Out of my heart Its form is of dark sorrow Its visage marred Its eight legs sprawl As it uncoils itself And it sneaks across the page With astonishing stealth It leaves a trail Of writhing black ink A kind of pathway That will help me think And as it… Continue reading
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Echoes
Why did the people Trying to help me Sound like the voices Depression sent me? I went to them To be released But they tightened the straps And added a leash The condemnation, the shame The endless berating Why did they echo My internal narration? They thought I was weak And they did not hide… Continue reading
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Bleak Landscape (repost)
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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Rainbow
You hung Your rainbowOver my fieldsSo my fallow groundWould finally be healed For a rainbow meansBoth light and rainIn sufficient abundanceTo form this display Dark clouds had loiteredOver me for yearsAnd yet the only downpourHad been my tears But now by Your mercyYou’ve helped me to knowThat my honest tears meansNow my crops can grow… Continue reading
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White Shores
White shoresIn the distanceLike flawless pearlsThey endlessly glisten I hear their voicesCalling me inTugging atThe sails within The water surgesAs currents carry meI perch on the white frothOf the waves of the sea Trailing in my wakeBlack clouds fleeAs sunlight piercesThe haze that tormented me Soon I am lyingAmong jewelled sea shellsThe warmth of the… Continue reading
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Grey Skies
Once my words Were locked away The sun sunk low And the skies went grey I rotted awayMy passion lost My voice, a stringless harpMy heart, an empty husk In this bleak timeI hid myself away Waiting for wordsTo spring up again And that tide Of beautiful black inkTurned my skies A rosy pink Continue reading
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Well of Sorrows
I have in me A well of sorrows Its dampness permeates Seeps into my bones I filled this chasm With wretched tears Hiding them from The scorn of my peers On some days It overflows As ink-stained tears That form into poems So I will let this flow Of tears start So other emotions Can… Continue reading
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Locked Inside
I built a cageFrom the strongest steelTo lock away memoriesTo pretend they weren’t real I accepted the secrecyOf hidden painRather than endureThe agony of change I suffered in silenceIn this bath of hot oilMy insides meltingFrom this toxic toil So I built a new cageFrom a kinder steelAnd I locked away my shameSo that I… Continue reading
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Whispering Snakes (repost)
Shameful whisperings Encircle like 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 not to speak Or my life they will wreck But… Continue reading
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Golden Day
Once in a while I have a golden day When the dark clouds are shattered By a sudden sun ray When the only weight That rests on my head Is a radiant crown Not that wreath of dread When my weeping heart Makes a different sound As a harmony of serendipity Is suddenly found These… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 