Trust Pain Poems

‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.’
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
	
While we’re in the vertiginous first...

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Author  Dana Redricks 
April 25, 2024

As I sit here consumed with pain, my heart heavy and my spirit drained, I look to You, Lord...

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I can be defensive, yes, it's true
A shield of protection, I construe
For wounds of the past still sting and burn,
Causing my cautious walls to discern.

But...

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Never once give them a reason to leave 
Never once asked for more than what's required 
Never once did they think of my feelings 
Never...

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Se fosse tutto vero e fosse solo sincerita',
mi aspetteresti, non saresti sopraffata dalla trauma
e mettere in scena il tuo dramma teatrale:
che peccato e' vedere una...

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This pain is like a saber toothed tiger,
it ravishes, unrelenting, through bone.
These aches, spasms, intermittent rigor,
beckon my heart to but retreat, alone.

This tire, that does...

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I disclose that I
Have regular appointments
For a needle in my eye

A thing I dread 
And I'm afraid of most
Is when I see that Javelin
Getting close

It...

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Take my sorrow
at least once
make me believe
make me trust
open your doors
and arms
clean the tears
of my heart...

I share your pain
and make it mine
I hold your hand
day...

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Please do not act crazily
You are rushing right at me
With lips ready for a peck
Or a sweet suck on the neck
Arms wide for a hug...

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Some secrets my soul have burdened and some I will take to my grave. But secrets involving people’s lives, have entrapped me in a cave....

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There is something we all have
Inside us, both good and bad
That can cause A splotchy stain
Of despair, sorrow and pain
Revenge and payback can unseal
Things that...

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Tonight is what did it
Done. No more. The end.
I didn’t know if this would work
But we made it this long, friend

Your words and actions say...

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I read your name 
And smiled for the first time
I knew when you came
That you will be mine

Who knew that few hours of the night
Would...

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Fill in the gaps
In my life
I have relapsed
Due to strife
Where did you go?
How do you know
I was lost too?
All is true…

I’m in pain
I’m in vain
I...

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Before the carbon dioxide, is a breath worth taking 
We'd be stranded without the pointed fingers of our finest locators 
But even hell frozen over...

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