Poem: Days Of Loneliness

My heart achesLoneliness fills my days.Mentors fallWalk paths of destruction.Friends struggleFriends drift away.Family remains brokenKept apartBy years of stubborn pride.Everything shiftsNowhere feels like home.Romantic desiresRemain unfulfilledUnexpressed.Only the GoddessRemains always with meInsufficient comfortFor my human soul.I offer up my painPray for strengthTo be found.Choose to hopeDespite all reason.Choose loveThough darkness seemsEver stronger.Loneliness fills my daysBut IContinue reading “Poem: Days Of Loneliness”

On Loving One’s Neighbours and Oneself

“Love thy neighbours as thyself”. These words are at the root of Christianity. First given as a commandment in the Torah, Jesus and Paul both later include them as the root of all Scripture, and all that we are commanded to do as God’s servants on this earth. As Christians, love becomes the yardstick byContinue reading “On Loving One’s Neighbours and Oneself”

Poem: Be Silent No More

I walk through the nightRunning from demonsInside my head.HidingFrom pain and shame.I’ve been biting my tongueToo oftenThese past few months.Can’t take it anymoreCan’t keep silentWhen I disagree.Hiding too much of myselfIn my own home.I turn to the LordAsk Her for guidance.She answers me“Speak up.Speak up nowBe silent no more.You focus too muchOn “Live peaceably withContinue reading “Poem: Be Silent No More”

Poem: More Alone

I am walkingA lonely road.FeelingMore aloneThan ever before.YesI have my friendsMy familyPeople who love meWho I love.Yet I am drowningIn a dark tideCrushed by loneliness.I haveNo personTo turn to.God’s comfortSeems slim.I longFor someoneTo hold at night.SomeoneTo remind meWhy lifeIs worth the living.Don’t worryI willKeep on walkingFor I have hope.Hope will lead meTo greater faithTo theContinue reading “Poem: More Alone”

Poem: Dark Forest

These past few monthsI’ve been wanderingThrough a dark forestNo ideaWhich path to take.There have been nightsI’ve shuddered in the coldShelteredFrom stormy gales .There have been daysI’ve seen the sunShining through the leaves.I’ve found gladesTo see the skySometimes blue and brightSometimes full of stars.These past few daysThe forest has grown darkerAnd there have been timesI’ve onlyContinue reading “Poem: Dark Forest”

Poem: Going To Be Alright

I’ve been runningOh so long.There’s a stitchIn my sideAnd my bodyIs screaming for relief.I’ve been fightingOh so long.Bodies of my foesAre piled high.I’m coatedIn blood and sweat and tears.I’ve been carryingThis weightOh so long.Pain fills my bodyGrief fills my soul.I’ve lost so much.It’s going to be alrightIt’s going to be okay.The pain will keep comingTheContinue reading “Poem: Going To Be Alright”

Poem: Heartbreak And Betrayal

I am walkingA lonely road.My heartIs clenchedFull of painOf ashesOf despair.Gut is clenchedTied in knotsHeartbreak and betrayalLoss of lifeWorld turned upside down.This has beenMy lot of lateI long for exileMy greatest wishIs to return home.If onlyI could lay downThis weary load.Yet I knowI can’t.Despite the darknessClosing inDespite evilMade manifestMy inner lightRefuses to go out.I holdContinue reading “Poem: Heartbreak And Betrayal”

Poem: Becoming A Cynic

Another person stumblesAnother person falls.I cry out to the LordIn despair and ragePain and weariness“Is no one safe?Does no on standFor what claim?”I knowMentors have a wayOf letting us down.Role models fall shortDevelop blemishes as we grow.I used to wonderWhy so many people became cynicsNow I wonderWhy we’re not all cynicsBy the time we’re doneContinue reading “Poem: Becoming A Cynic”

Poem: Held

I walk through the nightMind dark and cloudedGuts roilingIn pain and confusion.I scream and I cryI rage and I plead .All I can do is walkNo ordered thoughtNo solid musingJust walk.I bring all to the LordExhaust what I have to sayFeel drainedWearyReady to rest .All I can thinkIs this:Loving someoneEnough to let them goMay beContinue reading “Poem: Held”