Chains

Take the chains around your soul
And make them wings beyond the rainbow

Take the walls around your eyes
And make them highways to the skies

Take the pain around your heart
And make it useful as an art

Take the ugliness around
And make it beauty that’s unbound

Take the arrows thrown at truth
And make them butterflies of youth
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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Agustin Avatar
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.
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February 7, 2016 at 10:29 AM
AWESOME TAKE.. LINDA
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January 12, 2016 at 2:07 PM
awesome poem... Teodora... love it. SKAT
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