Hope
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Failed Foundation
I feel beneath my feet The ruins of a foundation A groundwork that was laid But was completely wasted A life spent But spent in vain Now these stones Are just a source of shame I prepare to break These reminders up But something in me Causes me to stop My failed foundation My so-called… Continue reading
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A Court of Fear and Loathing
My thoughts gather On this spiral staircase Each one sneering With malevolent face They’ve all prepared Each one has a speech Either some accusation Or a declaration of defeat I spin round In this amphitheatre But my attempts at defence Will have no impact here Their white papers Rain down As cheers of derision Echo… Continue reading
Anxiety, Depression, Emotions, Fear, Guilt, Hope, Pain, Perfectionism, Poetry, Rumination, Trauma, Truth -
Jester
I am not sure How I got this role I did not apply But was still enrolled Chosen as the happy one Who cheers everyone up Who always smiles And shows true love I was the one To carry other people’s burdens But found myself alone When I was hurting I danced so long That… Continue reading
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A Giver
Why can’t I Be like everyone else And be content to live Focussed on myself? Everyone else Can be insular Live without guilt Easily ignore others But if I do I die inside When I indulge myself I’m never satisfied I tried to be self-focussed To put me first But I was left With this… Continue reading
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Curse or Crown
A young man has an affliction Suffers from a curse It’s been there his whole life He’s had it since birth He can feel your emotions As if they were his own When he sees someone wince His insides groan Describe your situation And he will experience it Open the sorrows of your heart And… Continue reading
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Invisibility Cloak
A young man lives In a shroud of smoke His staggering steps hidden For he wears an invisibility cloak He found it one day In a cupboard in his room It promised to hide his secrets Instead, it became his tomb To all who looked at him He looked like he was doing ok But… Continue reading
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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
Dawn & Dusk 