Best Self Denial Poems

Cain's Self Denial 2015

4 a m again alone,
In a room full of peers
A raging war is being fought,
Confined between your ears
Drafted into battle, with no enemy to engage
Yet volunteering unwillingly fueling dueling rage
Mystic river flows, with the blood of innocent
No longer even knowing, or caring...

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Had to deny myself today

So much of my life

I just got in God's way

I had to pay the price

For choosing my own will

And God let me go to have my fill

I took the fork in every road

Paying no mind to the heavy load

Instead of taking...

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I live within the black that hides within my eyes
Living each day to die a little more 
Hate the thing i have become
and becoming less than the some
Feeling the surface
and knowing there is no depth
Convince my convictions to conceive
Sift the self through a single grain
And...

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Lent 

What does it mean?
To take the desert stance
Then walk this path
Of greatest resistance 

To tangle your heart
With the rocks and the snakes
To lie your head down
Where the deceiver wakes 

What is the point?
Of self-denial
To clear out the bitterness
Of the dark tempter's vial

To empty our...

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