Hope
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Black Hole

Soulless void Deep inside Imploded star Where my dreams died Parts of my soul Lost to dead space Cross the event horizon Never to be replaced Parts of me That I valued and treasured By immense forces of gravity Are torn and shredded So in my heart Sits a dark singularity An immeasurable weight That Continue reading
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Dark Circle

Dark circle In my brain Drags me beneath The waves again Thoughts revolving I can’t make them stop Jagged voices rising Mine is on the top A black halo Placed on my head Gyrating patterns encrypted With the words that they said Hopeless thoughts Oppressive lies Will flee from the dawn As it starts to Continue reading
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Hollow Reed

I am the outsider The different one here I am the writer The wordsmith extraordinaire I weave complex patterns In the recesses of my mind Scribble abstract equations To work out what’s inside I am a hollow reed That wails as the wind blows I am mourning church bells Echoing with resonant tone I paint Continue reading
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Rich Fruit

Ideas grow within me Swell like rich fruit Writing is the squeezing That turns them into juice Succulent sentences Luscious lines Spill out onto the paper One at a time The resulting cocktail Refreshes my soul Purges the bitterness From the pain of my toil The words nourish me Remind me of the truth Feeding Continue reading
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The Cure

Writing is the cure To this disease of mine It heals my emotions Brings peace to my mind Life crippled me Writing made me to walk Trauma stole my voice But with writing I can talk Depression struck me blind Surrounded me with dark Writing gave me new vision Lit my path with its spark Continue reading
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Brokenness

Broken shards in hand Cold tears run down sharp edges All of us have scars Cracks in our inner treasures We hide them in a cupboard Wish they would go away God comes in His mercy And makes a beautiful mosaic Continue reading
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Mosaic

You weaved my dark notes Into your symphony You took my misshapen works And somehow found symmetry You incorporated my falls Into Your dance You took my defeated posture Made it the opening stance You restyled my ageing architecture From archaic to classic You took my broken pieces And made a mosaic Continue reading
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Hope and Fear

What do you do When hope is your greatest fear? When you fear that anticipation Of getting everything you hold dear? What do you do When you fear the light? When you fear the waking dawn Because it always dips out of sight But once you get over That fear of failure You realise that Continue reading
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False Dawns

Have you ever had that feeling That horrible sensation? That sense of dread When things seem to be changing? When you begin to realise That all you ever wanted Is within your grasp Just moments from being granted? But you’ve been here before And it went wrong last time It was another false dawn Another Continue reading
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Efforts

I have worked myself Down to the bone Lived my life Doing as I was told I tried to keep the standards To be a good Christian I wrote down every command From the things I listened I tried to fit Other people’s expectations Mould myself Into their fittings The effort Left me a wreck Continue reading
