Art

I wear my truth
Like a canvas
Showing you my world
Bringing a light
To my darkness
Bleeding life from pain
Painted sorrow
A lonely blue
Brilliantly released
With every stroke
My mighty pen
Feels like I can’t breathe
Silver moonbeams
Bleak, dreary sky
Weathered the rested
Inglorious
Eyes without sight
Benign existence

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Words

One word ahead of another
Another behind the other
Fitting together
Making sense from
Utter madness
Chaos strung together
Every word a picture
Like a woodpile inside
Images from nothing
A string of lights
In my crazy mind
Sense out of nonsense
Pouring from a tap
Anxious sentences
Waiting to get off
Telling their own story
One I have never heard
Help me make them stop
Blink and they are gone
Pushing. Screaming. Wanting
Desperate to escape
Every word a meaning
Something I need to say
Words

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Let Her Rest

I am tired
For this old heart
In pieces lay
Drenched in crimson
Unwilling
Unable
Weakened it seeks
Torn asunder
Unholy
Repentant
Wishing for peace
Severed her limbs
Stagnant release
Falsified remains
Summons to God
Take me home
Forge new roads
Left behind
World unknown
Soulless eyes
No longer roam
Who is this girl
What has she done
Filled with remorse
In death is owned
Yet she is free
Unburdened she
Will she return
Or will she be
Someone you need
Yearning
Serving
Undeserving
Self-preserving
Finally this
Remorseful bliss
Someone’s daughter
Someone’s mother
Gravestone marker
Unearth
This curse
Please let her rest

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Unleash Me - Three Shorts

Unleash me
Cinder walls
Falling down
Expose me
Blasphemy 
Lies spilled
Graffiti
Falsehoods and
Lost freedoms
Raining glass
Piercing me
Holy God
On my knees
Let me breathe

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Salivate
Please placate
I want to
Celebrate
This demise
Nothing yet
I have spent
Wasted rent
I am done
Tired and
Wanting not
Only what
What I’ve got
Do you see
Me, on my
Knees, bloody
Begging pleas
Finish me
Do you hear
Set me free

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I am free
Hear my voice
See my wings
Blissful light
Surrounds me
Forgiveness
I repent
Life spent
Worrying
And wanting
Freedom to
Be just you
Simply me
Finally
I can breathe
Sweet Jesus
I can see

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