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In a fractured, tormented soul...
It has been said there are many rooms.
But some prefer, I think...
To forever call them tombs.
Poor spliced-trashed souls wander motionless...
While the sky held her hands
Her eyes as bold bells I heard
An ocean enough to drown deep to be found a herd.
While care is lost in the seas
God give me the serenity I do not deserve.
A luxury bought with the blood of those who came before me.
Give me the peace that comes from a privilege I did nothing to earn.
And tell me I am loved
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He whose kingdom is . . .
not of our world;
He prays!
God issued forth Him from Mary.
From His terminal anguish,
*BELIEVING*
_Stick unto God and believe in yourself. *It'd be bright after the dark.* There most be a black *time dark starry night before an open heaven* of a brighter sunny day._
LIFE DID BE BEAUTIFUL
Life will be
beautiful
and after
you've done
what's
needed to
make it that
way.
Prayer is powerful; for it is direct communication with your Creator,
your Creator who knows you inside and out.
The Word is your weapon; for it fights off the lies and accusations of the enemy.
and to think for a minute that your corpse will bid you farewell– it’s a tragedy for some, but a mercy unto others.i can only pray that the taste of my death will be sweet,
The sky is a green stagnant swamp.
The marching thunder approaches,
More rapidly with every peal.
Dawns light tries to infiltrate,
But it is muted by the oppression ,
Of the vault of steel clad clouds.
Last night the breeze sang a lullaby.
This dawn it screamed in howls.
The distant rumbling approaches,
Unlike the peaceful quiet of last night.
The wind is lifting swirls of leaves.
spinning spinning round and round
nowhere noone slows it down
hands outstretched tryingtheir best
i grasp and i claw my mind knows no rest
it is like the world is muted
spinning spinning round and round
I need you my father
when i rise, prepare my heart for your path today
as i walk, hold my hand so i don't stumble
shake me, when i fool myself that i can march on my own
forgive me, when i cry out in remorse
Dear God, I need a word, can you hear me?If I write these words do you think they will ever feel me?I can't relate to love, I think it fears me.
If a man gained the whole world, but lost his soul;Where would he be?Would he be lost, crossed from The Book forforever & eternity?Or would God grant him the chance to repent &reverse his destiny?Free from being forced to travel in dark -
There is a memory
I have lost
Yet,
I would have created it
Beautifully.
My words scare myself.
My mind is
A horrible mess.
Can't let anyone in.
They'll regret it.
But,
No child should die in the dawn of life,
They as bright and shining as early morning,
Their just-beginning story, that first word, paragraph, chapter
I prayed to Atë
For life
But she did not take that well
Because there is no easy way for me to be punished for that
She cannot give me life and my own downfall
How I long for a love as pure as day,
with kisses so sweet to dance the night away.
A love so full of adventures,
my heart will skip a beat,
so fresh and new, never to repeat.
Dear God,I don’t understand my purpose,I don’t even know what’s destined for me, I don’t know why you have given me this life,But can you help me understand?Can you lead me down a path,Regardless of trials or tribulations,To become the woman I’m s
I was once a young man at 18
Who decided to leave you see
To a place unknown
And a language lone
That's where I decided to be
I was called to L.A.
So I flew right away
I ripped my heart from my chest, as I am apt to do;
"Do you believe in God?" Does "God" believe in you?
I wasn't raised a Catholic, but I know Baptists,
May my compassion for each and every being I meet be limitless and sincere
May my wisdom transcend all defilements and confusion
Buddha is my true nature, may I always be mindful of this
I DON'T THINK, OF YESTERDAY. LET'S TO THINK, WHAT IS TODAY? SUN COMES, ALWAYS, BRAND-NEW. WHY TO SEE SUN, AS GREY.
Teeth came in, screaming came out
As a child finding my voice came with fees
Every chance I got to fight I would shout
My mother made me get down on my knees
Lord
A prayer for the man I love
He's so messed up
Yes
A prayer because I'm at a loss
He's cheated enough
Say
A prayer for me from your heart
In satan's snare he's caught
And me
Pray for the One
Good deeds are acts of prayer
To the light, our vanguard.
This is the time when
Acts of love are needed
To fortify the One of which
We all are,
Read it out loud, and listen how stupid you sound
Eternally cursed, because a snake that could converse
Because of an apple off a tree, how gullible can you be?
Read it out loud, and listen how stupid you sound
Eternally cursed, because a snake that could converse
Because of an apple off a tree, how gullible can you be?
post suicide-attempt
words stopped making sense
depression taking hold
anxiety uncontrolled
mind plagued by disease
only one offer of ease
prayer disguesed as poetry
to set my mind free
for lives lost
at the end of a gun
and those wounded
at the hands of
a bullet
i pray for
your peace but
more importantly
i pray for
your justice
Lord, give me pain.
Let me feel every tear that wells up in my eyes,
Every moment my heart is shredded to pieces, Lord.
Give me pain and give me torment,
Let my soul wrench for the poor and for the needy,
Thank thee, Lord, for living.
Thank thee, Lord, for death.
Thank thee for the ashy air
That fills my bony chest.
Thank thee for misfortune,
It took me by surprise,
I want to spend time with my daughterI think of her all day longHer blonde hair, her lovely laughterRead her a book? Sing a song?Daydreaming about her development…Proud that she is increasingly intelligent!
I’m praying for a troubled girl,who wishes for a change.Everyday she feels different,everyday she feels strange.
dear anxious self,
when your brain cannot stop thinking
and your heart beats in object terror
at things only the mind’s eye sees -
breathe.
This is our last chance to grieve
Dear Lord, I was only thirteen
The host of trepidation freshly forgot,
You coerced forgiveness from fester and rot
May the tired souls of the restless and stressed be pitied and blessed,
May the lost souls of the faithless find comfort and solace,
May the children of this world be guided towards edification,
I've never seen you
But I guess that doesn't mean you're not there
It's just that people don't really have a clue
I mean about you
They use you to scare
They say they preach your name
An old Jewish folktale says that words are feathers set loose in the wind; once free, you can never take them back. I had forgotten that story. But my words are poison ivy rather than feathers.
Because I love you
I will uplift you everyday
Because I love you
You will throw any negative connotations about yourself away
You are beYOUtiful
Yes in your own way.
Friends are your soulmates too.
Lord, thank You for this day
that I get to breathe
to laugh
to love
to.. live
what more can I say?
Can I love You for the moments
when I fell apart
broken
torn
done
Holy God, Sovereign, Faithful, Righteous and True
I pray everyday that I may be reduced
Death to the flesh, alive in You
This is hard to do
I listen to the Lord, every single night I bow my head and pray to you oh Lord.
I wish to be closer to you God. Like my garden angel, that hugs me so warmly.
I've lost a lot
of emotion
My mind's been
so unfocused
These past days
have been all commotion
I just feel so broken
I can hardly walk
or move a muscle
Loving God,
teach me to be silent,so that I can stay close to youand listen as you speakwithin my heart and through what I see, hear and what men Speak.
Dear Lord help me see,
In you I find a way to breathe.
Lord help me to know,
Beyond a doubt I'm not alone.
Savior help me to feel,
That your love for me is real.
Savior help me to hear,
when my family gets here
I'm gonna call you back
when my family gets here
I will play with Elmo and watch frozen
play hide and seek and tag down the hallway
sing songs and watch their eyes
Her words can hold rhythm with the way your heart beats
Her mouth spews promises
I wish she could keep
Theres whole galaxies in her head
But she's afraid to leave the earth
They say God is in the cosmos
abortion
abandoned
kid, don't you know what you've done?
why, why, why?
don't you want to be a mom?
maybe it wasn't your choice,
no maybe it was God's
rape did not take your voice
Angel in the gardenI see your golden wingssense the sweetness of your gazeas it envelopes me todayNight has clearly left usthe stars and moon set downthe sun has cllimved her ladder
I felt soutterlydefeated.Nothing is goingmy way.Nothing is goinghow I wanted it to.I feelso lostand broken.
Can you hear me now,
As I call through the cloud
The memories of the year that has past?
The memories of joy
The memories of tears
The memories of death
The memories of life
there's been another tragedy, tragedy
It's happened on the news, it's happened on social media, but people have refused
have refused to help, have refused to believe, that things are happening and it's not meant to be,
Dear God,
I want to say thank you.
Thank you for being here for me when nobody else was.
Thank you for protecting me even when I was doing wrong
Thank you for being my provider when I needed something
If there was a way
To live day by day
With joys and no pain
With sunshine and few rains
If there was a girl
Who I would call my dear
Smiles, bringing back memories
Of today, with few worries
In the name of your Son,whom you sent long ago
In whom i have let go
let go of this world
This world, and its woes
My neighbor's wife is battling cancer and she needs your prayers.Please show her that you want her to get better please show that you care.Her name is Jane Webb and she's undergoing chemotherapy.
As I lay down to sleep,
I know The Lord loves His sheep.
I am lucky to have the previlege to be awake,
I know my birth was not a mistake.
You see, angels watch me through the night,
I read a pamphlet that asked if religion is dying, it's almost dead.Religion may be gone forever in just a couple of decades ahead.Religion is important to me because it's what America needs.
Your will alone, and none of my own.Whether healing or loss, I look to the cross.All You have planned, I may not understand,But I still trust in You, for that's all I can do. Since You know it all, on my knees I will fall.Every night, every day, I
I am a poet.
My pen is my sword
The ancestors and God fuel my every word
Flowing out of this trident is ink from the depths of the ocean
This day in age, it always seems
The world is bursting at its seams.
Brothers dying,
Mothers crying,
The most bloodshed that heaven's seen.
Rapes and bombings everyday..
thing is im weak so I fall to my knees I beg to you God please oh please help me I need your strength to help fight this painyou are my light that guides the night I beg to you God please oh please help me give me wisdom give me peace walk w/ me
When the raging battle seeks to steal my joy,
My tears trickle down my face.
That's when I like to employ,
My unbeatable fighting Ace.
I lay down the Truth,
Let the lies flee.
Woke up this morning sweating
Laying in a wet spot
The heat must be on high
Cause this house is freakin hot
I look out the window
The sky is dark and grey
I drank a lot last night
All I need is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be with me
for he gives me life and brings me peace.
God you got my soul. When I drowned and fell through water that shattered. All the broken peices that fell off of me. Like a puzzle peice. Instantly binded. You glued all the peices back inside of me.
Faith
The unparalleled charter of an Island life can take you by storm.
The waves crashing against the shores to reassure that they are your only call.
No people, No love, No trust
See the thing about God is...
People
You, me, he, she, I, they, we...
People
love to forget their own purpose.
Love to live in the bliss or ignorance,
I plod along pristine sidewalks
in this utopian town,
craving the crisp crunch
of leaves under my sneakers,
but they’ve all been swept away
Lord, my God
take these words from quivering lips
as worship
hear my cry
take these tears from searching eyes
Tiny bald head
smothered with faint peachy fuzz,
wrinkled clenched eyelids
hiding deep blue orbs,
unopened fists punch at the sky,
God
I don't know how to pray
I do'nt know what to do
I don't know what I believe
But I know I want to believe in you
Please help me to believe
Reveal yourself to me
Show me
Dear God,
As you end this day tonight,
Please give me time to reflect, my light.
Let me fix on my blessing and delights.
Thank you for them, my ever shining knight.
Your birthday's on the clock is teasing me
Should I have let you leave?
Come back if you care
God please lead me to where I need to be
I trust that you or who will be with me
Who care's he snarls,
All alone with your face in the corner nowhere to run,
My World's ice'd over covered in snow,
Then I hear a vioce it say's I care,
Jesus Christ you heard my prayer's,
Dear heavenly Father,
I bow my head today
to ask for your forgiveness
for the sins I've done today.
I admit that I've shown envy
and I've used your name in vain.
I have ridiculed my peers
I said in a prayer,
Thank you God,
for lending me your most innocent and patient creation,
a short lived friend,
whom left an impact on my life,
he brought me nothing but joy on the saddest of days,
A fear that cannot be tamed
An evil that cannot be forsaken
A scream that cannot be heard
These are the demons
Who haunt us every day
Who taunt the sanctity of salvation
Oh Life, give me God!
Oh God, give me life!
And whatever else your capable of
from high up above.
The God who made the notion of love.
The God who turned a plain white bird
Sitting alone on the grass late one night
Admiring the starry sky shining so bright
I could not help but be in awe of my God
Who created the heavens and man out of sod
1. As the sun peaked through the shutter like an unwanted mister
The trees sang their song in a wonderful whisper.
Dear God,
I don’t want to be bother,
But I was wondering if we could talk again,
You know, daughter to Father
My words are more than just ink on paperThey are a prayerA silent chronicle of my life through my eyesMore than just simple sighs they areWishes and dreams
Why do we wake up?
Humans are evil .
Humans are dumb.
Humans can think yes.
But only of what suits them best.
Humans walk beside the rest of us.
Forgetting they are the rest of us
To acknowledge we're something,
to oppose the murder of consciousness,
to bend knee toward the last
exhalations of fields of lukewarm corpses
shouting the symphony of remorse;
Theres days when I fall and can't get back up
only to find a solution for me finding my balance again
I prayed that I was dreaming
When I saw that big wave
The water was not normal
But as dark as a cave
It was full of weird greens and reds and blacks
Seeing with the eyes is only a sense,
Seeing with the heart is a gift,
Seeing with the soul is an annointing.
When you walk, however,
You walk by faith,
Not by sight.
I’ve never been able to bow my head long enough to pray
Too consumed by the urge to peek
I’ve always been more concerned with what was going on around me –
My heart races as he walks by
I am nervous, I hope he does not say Hi
He caught me watching him carrying his tray.
Yes, he is looking my way
He is praying before his meal
My mind is exhausted, but I choose not to sleep.
I just keep repeating words in my head, knowing
I'm indebted to a man with nail-pierced hands
And my time-span is spread-thin
At night when I bow my knees
And come to You in prayer,
A gentle calm surrounds me
As I leave my burdens there.
What do I do whenOpening my mouth to voiceTo carefully shape what I think are words of beauty to Your ears,I am flung roughly asideAnd, raising my headI find myself as aggravating background noise
Mind over matter
But what really matters
Controlling your mind or leaving the matter to the master
Dear God,
I heard you're up there
But I don't know you like I should, cuz it’s felt like you’re not here.
And now you’re showing me what love's supposed to be,
Chest concaving,
Every ounce of blood burning.
Vision blurred, eyes engulfed.
Sadness I had never known.
Your soul had left its vessel,
How was I last to know?
Put down the knife
Let down your hair
Abandon those thoughts
You're no longer there
I was there
Watching from above
Answering your prayers
Sending my love
Dear Lord,
And then the thought vanishes
Like ink words never written on a page.
The words that fall like glistening coins from my lips
Lack backing in a truer currency.
At school the other day, I was asked not to pray.
It rocked me and shocked me. What could I say?
I am but a student that is meant to obey.
But did they have the right to ask me not to pray?
Please; deliver us from these disreputable men in Washington....who
have forgotten the history at Concord & Lexington. Oh Lord, in Christs
Being the Real Meby Hannah Powell
Being the real me,In a world full of wannabes,Is so much harder than everyoneAlways told me it would be.
It's just another day, still hanging by a thread.
When I open my eyes, to see a pillow and a bed.Where I lay my head, I think to myself thank god
I'm still alive and not found dead.
Invoke in us the Power of Love!
Time! The precious essence flows,
As a river drying in the drought,
Who knows?
What is birth,
Time passes by
Is it already October?
The school year goes on and on
And I'm trying not to get left behind.
I work hard to finish the work,
to have time for games and floor bonding.
Wait Blue Beloved, I want to tell you, let’s snuggle forever, and stay with me in bed sweetheartTimes will seem too hard to bear and I will feel like life is giving up on me
The Misled Queen
“Ayo bitchass” is the way she would greet me as she walked into the locker room
Her hair glistened from the shadow of the sun smiling at the ocean at sundown; Rapunzel could not touch her.
the lord is my shepherd
i shall not want
in verdent green pastures, he gives me repose
before restful waters , he leads me
he refreshes my soul
he guides me in right path for his name sakes
Silent yet too powerful to overcomeWe can only feel it when it’s too lateSomething we can’t cure, it can hurt anyoneThe victim’s pains will only escalate
I know God listens, but what of them?
They hear my rhymeless poetry prayer
Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Peace-
Laid as a naked newborn
I know God listens, but what of them?
They hear without thought or compassion
You know when you sit long enough somewhere
And your mind begins to wander
It wanders to the darkest depths of despair
You feel about life and its never ending twists and turns.
Are you real?
Are you honestly here for me?
Always by my side?
Forever my shepherd guide?
My mom tells me to pray,
half-way through the drumroll night
glass crackling, down
a spinal cord wrapped around his hands
his words
shoved down her throat, puncturing her veins
still she remains -
Church a place, where you
Draw close to the creator.
Church a place where you go to get you too eternal.
Church a place where you hear the sound of the beautiful drums.
Those spares,
That piano,
I don't hate.
I'm not a bigot.
I can only speak the truth.
If/when people read this
You need to know: Please look.
I judge no one, I love
Only as Christ loved me.
Yet I am human alas!
Ten
I tell you of your sin
Nine
The anguish of your Eyes
Eight
Its the thing God hates
Seven
That No good girls go to Heaven
Six
Because no good girls exist.
Five
I love the way the pages crinkle
Crackle when I flip them over.
The thin feel of oinion skin (are they really?)
So smooth I sometimes run the pads of my fingers
Down the page.
Father give me the humble things
Take away my pride
For I am Your child Lord
And a part of Your Bride.
And pride has no place here.
Give me no duty that would exalt me high
No poem for people to view me by
Lord grant me all the humble things
The silly little humble things,
The things that no one else will see
And no one else will do.
Give me the least of these
And help, I humbly beg please
Oh Gentle Whisper
Your child weeps for his hope has died
His sky falls
An unheralded fate upon his shoulders
Inveigled by his desires
To sacrifice the little bit of freedom he has left
I have nothing else outside of thee,
This is obvious with everyone I go down on both knees.
Crying out for some help through this trouble and pain,
Wishing that there was a way to make my heart whole again.
Pray for the souls lost.
Casualties of life's meandering way.
Let your love rush in and rescue them.
A love that wipes away sin and tears.
That comforts and saves us from our fears.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference...
Angels, as it is said, are here to protect,
To save us from pain, suffering and neglect.
My angels are here, on earth, across the sea,
Fighting for my country, for you and for me.
There was a man, like you and me, who born at birth could not see.
His clothes were worn, his hair a mess, laid on the dirt when time to rest.
His food came from a coin plate that he would beg with night and day.
(poems go here) Dear God,
I've had a long day
and I've been trying to pray,
but the words on my mind,
keep spilling out in rhyme.
I know everything happens for a reason,
We're afraid to recognize the faults
So life goes on with its deadly assaults
Getting harder and harder everyday, but suddenly it halts
Because sooner or later we unlock all the vaults
Then sense pours out
Sometimes I feel blind, like I cannot see
But the world sees him, and also sees her
The world ignores me, and never sees me
But the world shields them, while I remain blurred.
Our farther which art in heaven,
Save my child's soul who's only eleven
For she's growing up to fast and I want her to see
And don't make the same mistakes like me
Life is not a fairy tale
~please tell me why
love turns to hate
and you lose half your friends before the gates
and we fall apart after we graduate
and how we can’t check on eachother
just to make sure things are straight
I was once untouchable, until he touched me and took everything.
All he had to do was lift a finger to cast my soul dead.
Tears would not flow but blood would shed because
We were no longer equal.
They say i'm way too young
To find the man that is the one
If i dont find him i'm going to burst
That is why i put my God first
To have humility is to think less
Of ourselves ‘cause we are God’s creation
Red, yellow, black, white, tell that to the press
For the races received much damnation.
Injustice is still there we need prayers
Oh godess, hear my plea.
I pray that you deliver me.
I seek your help, I seek your care,
I seek your judgement true and fair.
I pray for mercy from this storm,
I pray that you would lead me home.
Sometimes I let my soul become like a desert land,
building up on every side castles made with sand.
I try to hide behind these walls of bitterness and shame,
selfishness and hurt and pride grow like a hungry flame.
I wrote this a few years back before my confirmation of my faith. Hope you like it!:
Her daddy walks her down
To her prince charming
Family and friends smile
At her in this perfect moment with the sun setting
here i am, little ol' me, underneath Your galaxy.
there You are, up above, smiling down on me with love.
Lord i love you, by and by. You are my love, my firefly.
i wish to feel you, next to me. holding hands, silently.
Dear Lord,
I've always come to church,
Always believed.
Yet somewhere, somehow,everything went wrong.
All my friends are left behind,
The school I once knew is gone,
