Best Wretchedness Poems

It was in the sorrow
That I learned to empathize and care
It was in the darkness
That my heart spoke the best prayers
It was in the silence
That...

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My heart shrivels dry, blackened rose in bitter anguish, ...
 Do you feel my pain? 
   Why must the flame of day dwindle...

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INTERCEPTION

Shadows waning distorted fading
Teasing tempting, a psychotic hack
Scheming concealing cerebral deceiving
Sun retreating behind shades of black

Memoirs succumbing, alpha notes strumming
Hope dwindling midst each laboured breath
Dusky-eyed...

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From that day on and forward,
I began to see the wretchedness my God had warned me of
He cursed the Lord wholeheartedly, for inflicting yet another...

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*Amazingly awesome is my God
*My heavenly Father … *Fountain of life
*My sovereign Lord *At my heart’s throne 
*Triumph of my spirit.

*Meeting God is a great...

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Hope
I care not for the odds
Spoken by sooth sayer voices
They are blinded by statistics 
For a seemingly sure concept
Though a bleakness dampens 
Every fainting ray...

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Praise the Ruler of nations!
God is mightier than anybody:
they try to defeat His army,
but can they win against angels?

Even Jesus, the shining sun,
defied death and...

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my Sun is Orange

my morning Sun is orange
The yellow is stained
with the Blood of my People
for that is what we
are reminded of
each day

when it rises...

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*It was you who
........Ruined everything
*I miss
....... My old life
*The peacefulness 
........Before you brought chaos 
*When i was with you
........Everyday was torture
*Everything was different 
........The way...

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He Weeps
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Holiness harnessed haughtiness.
Heaven's honor hallows humans. 
Heavenly hopes happily hail.
Enemies, earnestly enchant.
Endless errors evoke evil. 
Exhilaration empowers.
Wait...

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Let loose and laugh, 
As life is getting so hard; 
Ease the stress and pressure, 
Getting off the house of cards.

Wearing a relaxed joyful smile
Carries...

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The heart sheds its own tears
Sorrowed by life’s unfairness
As the hazy mist clears
Anguish carries stark bareness
Brokenness, deep despair
Hope hanging slim by a thread
Loneliness, hard to...

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I won’t grieve no more, for I need satisfaction melodically
I won’t receive gratification anymore if I give up so easily
Tonight, I will be happy...
I won’t...

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Recovery from within takes longer than expected I noticed from the start
I'm growing weary of going through trials of endless letdowns in heart
Underneath the dust...

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Slain without swords they are 
Though the airy wordly air 
They inhale yet in graceless lack

Behold in the colony of wretchedness
Naked children begging alms
From brothers-not...

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