Self-Destruction

Wishes hang, like icicles
Clinging to the steely gray
Branches where silence breathes
Promises, echoing through
The winds, hastening hope and 
Anticipation, resting on the 
Colors of joy, peace and grace
Blended together with faith

Crisp words form to create
Images and imagery, picture
Perfect intimacy, inspirations
Flowing from the pen,
Unearthing secrets and whimsical
Dreams, ideas that burn
Passionate and alive, a fire
On the inside where I know the 
Wonder of God’s abiding
Thunder, the wonder of silence

Gentling the truth
With imaginations who bring
Beauty from the darkest graves
Glory from the dread, the appalling,
Laughter from the most gloomy
Places where the sun never shines,
Where birds don’t take flight,
Where history fights for the chance
To birth memories of thanksgiving,
Rays of hope amid the darkest
Shadows, the black that obscures
The glistening stars, the moon
All those pieces of optimism’s honest
Look into the eyes of serenity
And devotion, fidelity

Depression exhausts
Every pleasure, each dream
With flavors of sorrow, grief
That beckons to the memory, 
The possibilities linger….

Plans yearn to be made,
But instead are hidden away
Beneath silhouettes of dread,
Fear takes the stage
Where once there had been
Confidence and assurance,
Where there had been light…
Night falls heavy, like a veil of doubt,
Clinging to the yearnings
Failing to give life a purpose

Depression feels like waves of caution,
Roaring through the soul,
Sending inklings of discouragement,
Suspicions and worries,
Haunting even the sunlight’s grace
With a feeling that binds love
Replacing the joy with a sadness
That even the sweetest hope
Can’t dissuade… it is this sorrow
That lingers on the hearts of those
Who reach past the pain…

Into the freedom of a death
That will never let them open
Their heart again





Suicide Hotline: 988

May God be with you and bless you with peace that surpasses understanding!


Philippians 4:7 - King James Version
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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