Redemption
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Bleak Landscape (repost)
My mind is a bleak landscape Not by design Scattered with corpses Once dreams of mine A famine came one day It never left It dried my rivers Left me for dead Dust storms roam The sunlight, they cloakI am stalked by fear On hopelessness, I choke I laid my bleakness Before the Lord And… Continue reading
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Rainbow
You hung Your rainbowOver my fieldsSo my fallow groundWould finally be healed For a rainbow meansBoth light and rainIn sufficient abundanceTo form this display Dark clouds had loiteredOver me for yearsAnd yet the only downpourHad been my tears But now by Your mercyYou’ve helped me to knowThat my honest tears meansNow my crops can grow… Continue reading
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White Shores
White shoresIn the distanceLike flawless pearlsThey endlessly glisten I hear their voicesCalling me inTugging atThe sails within The water surgesAs currents carry meI perch on the white frothOf the waves of the sea Trailing in my wakeBlack clouds fleeAs sunlight piercesThe haze that tormented me Soon I am lyingAmong jewelled sea shellsThe warmth of the… Continue reading
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Dead Dreams
It seems my heart Is actually a graveyard With overgrown grassAnd headstones that are scarred Here I laidMy dreams to restAfter failing for so longTo make any progress I sealed these tombsWith walls of stoneAnd tried to forgetThis tragic mausoleum But when I buriedMy aspirationsThere was no roomFor my pain to fit in So I… Continue reading
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Whispering Snakes (repost)
Shameful whisperings Encircle like snakes Corrode my belief And undermine my faith They sing in my dreams A spiteful tune of woe They slither under my skin They go everywhere I go These snakes bind my hands And wrap around my neck They warn me not to speak Or my life they will wreck But… Continue reading
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Golden Day
Once in a while I have a golden day When the dark clouds are shattered By a sudden sun ray When the only weight That rests on my head Is a radiant crown Not that wreath of dread When my weeping heart Makes a different sound As a harmony of serendipity Is suddenly found These… Continue reading
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River of Gold
In a shimmering land Of beauty untold Flows a wonderful river Of endless gold I was told That I must travel Search high and low To encounter this marvel So I crossed Burning sands And passed through Dark and treacherous lands But when I needed That river the most It searched for me So I… Continue reading
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Golden Seam
A golden glintIn a rock of blackHope shimmersThrough this ugly crack Once it was a scarNow it is a beaconCalling to the fragmentedThose broken by life’s beating Jealous watersChurn in rageAs their attempt at sabotageFails to pay Instead revealedIs this rich seamWhich otherwise wouldHave never been seen Continue reading
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Writhing Dragons
Two dragons reside In the pit of my stomach Their roars echo In the walls of my gullet One is coal-black With glimmering red eyes Who blasts its bitterness In my brooding skies The other is of emerald A deep merciless green Writhing in jealousy At all that it sees Sometimes they wrestle Sometimes they… Continue reading
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Broken Table
A poem on restoration Splintered wood Cracks spreading This is the momentThe table has been dreading A shuddering collapseLegs buckle and break As the table crumples Under its own weight But this tragic tableOnce broken by pain Will be rebuilt by His hands And will stand again Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 