Hope
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Rest and Reading
The noise in my head Is finally gone The winter nights Are 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 Continue reading
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The Wonder of Reading
One of the joys I have had in recovering from depression is to be able to read fiction again To read a book Is to take flight To pass dimensional barriers And leave this world behind It is to cross the multiverse To become a master over time To experience new realities Explore branching timelines Continue reading
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When Words Were Gone
Life set fire To what I loved most Stole the words from my lips Like an unseen ghost The seat of my ideas My passions, my inspirations Was turned into ash Reduced to a charred wasteland Where words once flowed There was a cavernous void The fountain in my heart Was savagely destroyed Words evaporated Continue reading
Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Shame, Trauma, Writing -
Winter Days
I feel the ice Congealing around my heart And like frost-bitten toes My emotions drop off The winter days encircle me The coldness seeps in I have forgotten what summer is like The beautiful blooms of spring I shiver on the porch Waiting for these days to be over For this ice palace in my Continue reading
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Chrysalis
A dawn or a dusk?A chrysalis or a cage?A life reaching its end Or the beginning of a new stage? I must trust in Him Within these dark walls As pain afflicts me From my back, things crawl None can see the changes No, not even me Until the chrysalis cracks And I fly free Continue reading
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Anxiety’s Equations
Anxiety is like a Flustered mathematician A self-appointed professor Who can’t do simple addition He stares in panic At his cluttered chalkboard He is bewildered by his own working But yet he is sure That my world will end And my future is doomed That disaster is inevitable And there is nothing I can do Continue reading
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Perfectionism
A faint whisper In my ear An unsettling feeling A shiver of fear You always tell me That disaster is on its way That I have to do more To keep the destruction at bay You are a phantom Chasing me down dark alleyways You chant constant threats I always feel your blade One day Continue reading
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Hope is a Home
Hope is a home Not a hotel An impenetrable castle A magnificent citadel It is not a train In which you hop in and out It is an exploration ship Crossing an ocean of doubt It doesn’t always feel secure It has peaks and troughs But it is a place to shelter in When the Continue reading
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Above the Waters
I am reaching out From beneath these waves Knowing that my hope Will not be put to shame For my God is with me He will make a way out These challenges I face By His power, I will surmount For it is in weakness That He builds strength It’s in the cracks of a Continue reading
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Dark Rose
I saw a flower yesterday Hidden among the ash A dark rose Peeking through the burnt grass It was frail But it was there all the same Coming forth Despite the lack of rain I decided to sit with it And watch it grow Ignore the devastation That had laid waste to my hopes The Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 