Afflictive Poems - Poems about Afflictive

...Silent pain am I screaming… Robbing your soul of triumph Making you languish in frustration angst Inflicted by skepticism’s oppressive blight Well, where is your belief in the Saviour, S......Read the rest...

...October 22 Scripture Meditations Based on Acts 9-12 Key Verse – Acts 9:15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name… MY GOD, THANK YO......Read the rest...

...October 3 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 12-13 Key Verse – Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon ......Read the rest...

...September 28 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 2-3 Key Verse– Luke 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LIGHTING ME UP...Read the rest...

...September 16 Scripture Meditations Based on Matthew 19-20 Key Verses– Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. ......Read the rest...

...Carry me to my exit strategy where my body doth bid me, "goodbye my friend". Thus too, I deliver myself to all golden rules written/spoken/lived to all great truths that crown us with everlasti......Read the rest...

...I hate my life but I hate it even more when I see others hate theirs too I'm suicidal but it kills me when I see other ppl die because of what they have been through I like being angry but I can’t ......Read the rest...

...I'm plagued by memories I'd rather forget, and with shadows that linger, I'm often beset. They hover around me, leaving me daunted in my waking hours and in dreams ill-haunted. I've sho......Read the rest...

...Solitude: Distressful Afflictive Merciless Unbearable solitude, When you are present, Time immobile remains, And Each second an eternity of intolerable Suffering becomes. At such moments,......Read the rest...

...There is no mental pain to one with no expectations. All fears transcended by one whose fetters are extinct. It does not occur to me, "I am" nor that I live or exist, so what is there to lamen......Read the rest...

...er>Love divine, sovereign in directive Smites lust, selfish midst carnal perspective… Though both can be passionately active True love along life-building objective Unmasks lust that’s grievously "afflictive". While love sublime works really effective Reaching-out: restorative, curative… Scheming lust is deceitfully protective In the guise of care, vainly productive For personal gain; ......Read the rest...

...And just when you thought you are already susceptible to pain, there will come another heartbreak-- more afflictive than all the hurt that you've ever experienced. And just when ......Read the rest...

...Tomorrow never comes Lost in the memories of yesterday Glories of triumphs bygone Reveries intermittently broken As pains from the boo-boos of yore Break through to the fore From their sepulc......Read the rest...

...It Was A goal Just to be Comfortable? Yes, comfortable! It is really a reward That comes with time. Not just the passage of time But time shared, spent with love And respect for each other,......Read the rest...

...Alone © Ben Burton 11-24-2014 I wish I weren't alone I wish I could atone If only I had known How time is so soon gone Watching my four-legged friend get run down by a car Drinking at a ne......Read the rest...