Trust
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Adversity Is Not The End
Though the fire burns, It will not consume me Though the flood rises, It will not drown me Though the wind howls, It will not stop me Though the lightning flashes, It will not blind me Though the storm rages, It will not engulf me Though the lava encircles, It will not entrap me Though Continue reading
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Not Forgotten
Not forgotten Not alone No longer broken No longer forlorn Not irredeemable Not a reject No longer ashamed No longer a wreck Not too far gone Not a hopeless case Not a dirty stain That needs to be erased Not an imposter I am not lesser I am not simply someone’s project To try and 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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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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A Golden Day
A golden day In a sea of black When the light seeps out Through a little crack A day when I feel like I am floating on clouds And those stormy rain ones Are nowhere to be found When the only weight on my head Is that of a crown And my weeping heart For Continue reading
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Why Me?
Why me? Why now? Why so long? Do I lack power? Do I lack resilience? Do I need to be tougher? Why is it me That always has to suffer? Why these dark feelings Around every corner? Why has life conspired To make each day harder? Why these dark days? Why does the sun hide? Continue reading
Anger, Bitterness, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust, Writing -
Anxiety’s Equations
Anxiety is like a Flustered mathematician A self-appointed professor Who can’t do simple addition He spends his days Scribbling complex equations But he still has yet to master The basics of calculation He stares in panic At his cluttered chalkboard He is bewildered by his own working But of one thing he is sure The Continue reading
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Why Must I Suffer?
Why must I suffer? Why must I hurt? Why must my mood Be dragged through the dirt? Why this intense pain In the depths of my soul? And why can’t I close This gaping, cavernous hole? What must I do For things to be made right? I have faced my trauma And put up a Continue reading
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Years of Pain
I look back With such pain Seeing the years of suffering All to no gain All that pain Because of what I didn’t know Fighting desperately But with nothing to show When all this time I was built differently Needed different things To live successfully I beat myself up With hard, rigid rules I thought Continue reading
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Desert Flower
Desert winds blow Bringing dryness and death The budding flower cracks In this blast of hot breath There is no shelter The soft petals are ripped Pink torn into brown shreds As the plant is slowly stripped The dry winds ease And the swirling sands drop And the flower can now see What it has Continue reading
Bitterness, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust, Writing
Dawn & Dusk 