Pain
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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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Being Myself
I tried not caring But had to give up I tried being lazy But I forgot I tried self-indulgence But I got bored I tried to be extroverted But felt like a fraud I tried to be So many things Then one day I thought I’ll try being me So I gave it a go… Continue reading
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I Tried to be Normal
I tried to be normal I really did I tried to be proper Tried to fit in I gave it a good go I promise, I did Made sure to practice Every night before bed I tried to be normal Though it was hard I watched my every word And was always on guard I… Continue reading
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I Once Was a Reader
I used to be a reader A book devourer That ancient being From which words cower I would consume tomes In one fell swoop During the day or the night Well done or uncooked I was a realm traveller Entering endless domains From fantastical lands To the far reaches of space All that was taken… 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 -
Robbery
You stole it from me This hobby that I love You took writing from me As if you weren’t punishment enough You took my dream And crushed it in your hand All the worlds I had imagined You brought to a sudden end Characters I had created Nurtured and watched grow You snatched them in… Continue reading
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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
Dawn & Dusk 