Redemption
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Dance in the Rain
Black clouds thundering With dark sounds My golden notes drowning In puddles on the ground The rhythmic raindrops Beat me down Becoming the bassline For this sorrowful sound This miserable music Refused to go away So I started learning To dance in this rain And as I was twirling My golden notes rose Shimmering like… Continue reading
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Oppression
I have felt the weight Of a thousand terrible tears And felt the claws Of my festering fears I have looked my anger In its red, cloudy eye And watched as despair Blotted out the sky I have felt the grip of dread Before a challenge begins And the endless emptiness After it ends All… Continue reading
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Empty Instruments
I try to drown out The terrible noise With a host of empty Instruments of joy I flood my senses With sugary notes Cherry-topped tunes On ice cream cones I bash my head With heavy bass lines To try to drive The sadness from my mind A mindless melody A simplistic symphony Repetitive lyrics That… Continue reading
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Misery’s Misty Mirage
An injection of misery Black poison in my soul Dragged my optimism Into a wretched hole Fed me sadness Stole sweet joys from my mouth Hung grey bags of misery To pin me to the ground A misty mirage To show me lies Replaying dark memories In my mind But a side effect It never… Continue reading
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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
