Best Afflictive Poems

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,
We implore Time to advance,
To accelerate its pace,
To hurry up

For

The next second
The next minute
The next hour
The next day to come,

So as

The pain to decrease,
Our agony to lessen,
And us to...

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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 shouted, "Leave me alone!" They smirk
and lie await. In defiance, they loom and lurk,
stabbing far too deep inside...

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Generally, no kiss does attract opposite
But, necessary of course
For a definite purpose
Like in intercourse 
Kiss is important incidence.

Kissing stimulates
With the same gender it complicates
But, more importantly with opposites.
Nevertheless, for opposites  the more
Kissing is very afflictive!
Don’t joke….
Kissing is an ingredient between mates.

Kissing the lips is...

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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 sepulchres 
Deep, at the back of my mind
Where I'd had them entombed.

Yo-yoing between emotions;
Pleasant and afflictive
In self-motivation
I cultivate amendatory measures for...

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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, Source of mercy?
Have you forsaken His offered grace??
Oh, check now your relationship with Him...
Vanquish me with your affirmation:
“Therefore being...

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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 never-ending string of nameless bars
Drifting aimlessly while seeing others make their marks
Letting go...

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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; oh, greedy...

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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 you thought 
 you can handle situations...

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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, so that
We reach a stage where no words are
Needed.  Not discarded, just not needed.
What is required for us...

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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 everlasting scope steps of
conscious, spiritual abiding, 
Afflictive emotions be silenced....

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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.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR MINISTERING UNTO ME

Thank You for ministering...

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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

Thank You for lighting me up midst afflictive hardship
By your Word’s illumination for my faithful...

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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 another, he (Jesus Christ) began to say unto his disciples first of all,...

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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 lament?
All afflictive formations are destroyed
when one sees with uncoupled wisdom
the world as...

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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 YOU FOR CHOOSING ME AS A VESSEL UNTO YOU

Thank You...

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