Healing
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What I Feel
For me, poetry shows a snapshot of what I feel in the moment. I am learning not to bind myself to them or define myself by them. I am learning that the true value is in digging behind the thoughts, unveiling the assumptions, hunting for the truth and plotting a way forward. On these pagesThings Continue reading
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The Tightrope
Do what you love To break yourself free But if I do too much My mind cracks beneath me It’s a balancing act Edging across a tightrope But I have no balancing bar So how can I have any hope? I am left to struggle To find the answers on my own But whichever way Continue reading
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Secrets
They bury themselves Like toxic abscesses Out of sight Hidden in deep recesses We don’t realise That in darkness they grow Set down foundations Build an iron throne We try to forget Pretend they do not exist But when squeezed by pressure The pus escapes with a hiss The festering infection drains us Weakens our Continue reading
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Cracked
Let God in when your heart breaks. Trust Him with your inner pain Ice cold blade In the centre of my heart A savage stabbing Ripping me apart A stagnant inner mass Has been congealing inside Poisoning my soul Causing me to die His tender love can finally Enter my cracked heart Sealing the ragged Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust -
Fed Up
I have learned during my recovery from depression that it is a journey of learning – learning how to manage emotions, deal with past traumas and about yourself. I have had to learn to move forward with a flexible approach. This poem details my frustration after trying to take a rigid approach and my journey Continue reading
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Mistakes
A short poem on regret Bitter taste Burns Leaves a mark On the skin A chance to learn Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Regret, Trauma, Writing -
Pebble
In the darkness And the bitterness of tears In this tragic nightmare This fear of all fears I found a small stone A pebble, no less A shard of hope Given to me in this duress Every day I clasped it It began to grow And notched in its surface Little truths to me, it Continue reading
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Cavernous Hole
Cavernous hole Where a heart once was The chest gapes open Showing all its flaws Life wrenched the heart loose And bitterness embalmed it Put the heart in a chest And buried it in that pit The heart must return For him to live again But for him to reach it He must dig through Continue reading
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Giving It Up
I will lay it all down My future and my past Lay down my selfish desires And to You, hold fast I can’t change my past I must face this truth And I cannot know the future I must give them both to You I must lay down All worry and shame Choose to receive Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Fear, Forgiveness, God, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Love, Poetry, Redemption, Trust -
Blackened Stone
A blackened stone In the palm of my hand Once it was white Once it was grand Once it shone bright Like a star in the night sky A precious pearl The apple of God’s eye Then I ruined it Scarred its perfection Now every time I see it I feel so wretched The black Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 