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Encircled by shadows
Drowning
in ashes of a past
Left gasping
Grasping
Hope
Per chance to resurrect dreams
A moment
To envision
The incision
Which unbinds the heart
From ego and mind
Liberates desires
Inspires
Divine love
Meant only for the soul
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Half winged images
hopeless
of flight
believing
insufficient
to bestow
delight
Fluttering in shadows
reluctance
to fly
disgraced
and shameful
reticent
to try
Hesitant to soar
averse
to fail
distraught
and untrusting
of what
may avail
Pruned not severed
capable
of aviation
when joined
together
and merely lifted
from isolation
11/9/17
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Silence always echoes
Walls forever confine
Time invariably passes
A world not of mine
A blindness lingers
Impedes the light
Shadows mislead
Reinforcing my plight
My stomach turns
Feeling nausea
My mind replays
Previous trauma
Tragic in moments
Isolated in grief
Pleading for mercy
Lacking relief
Sleeping to escape
Yet dreaming resists
No solace resides
Where desperation exists
Progressing further
Increasing fears
A constant haunt
And terror rears
Darkness prevails
An unfathomed pain
Ominous power
Unyielding reign
Breathing not permitted
In this horrid place
Anticipation overpowers
Awaiting blows, I brace
Unrelenting nights
Impeding each day
Enduring this plague
No soul should obey
I know your combat secrets
Familiar to your rank
From previous encounters
I've come to know your flank
Finding strength within
I pull up to my feet
Internal war is waged
I will see your defeat
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You did not know
How hard it could be
To let go of a poison
Stronger than me
You held on to hope
One day she will be well
Not knowing your contribution
As I drifted into hell
Knowing not spiteful
But nonetheless
My illness fed
I began to regress
Lithium did not cure
My unworthiness
No chemical fix
For purposelessness
Feelings from my past
Of never quite enough
Despite your encouragement
I fled in a huff
In my addiction
I always lied
Because you saw me
A shame I could not hide
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And in your death my soul is tethered
A presence yet unsevered
Tragic loss not well weathered
Empty in your absence
Unspeakable resurgence
And implausible resilience
Suffering in silence
As none can console
Not within control
An altering of the soul
Never again to be whole
And not meant to be
Of this I will agree
Although did not foresee
The depth of change in me
Expected not the gain
That which was my bane
Affords comfort in the pain
As it assures me you remain
And in your death my soul is tethered
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In rushes winter
At a furious pace
Upon arrival
Time slows
Descending from grace
Shrouding blue skies
In blankets of grey
Dark extends
Cold creeps
Shall not go away
Icy fingers burrow
Excavating my being
Hollow spirit
Light hides
No longer seeing
Emotionless shivers
Inhaled with each breath
As if frozen
Air stills
Yet smelling of death
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Like a siren
Calling from the sea
Luring me
To unknown depths
Assuring safety
From perpetual tears
Drowning fears
Of shipwrecked hopes
Dismissed
As someone else's dream
In between the seam
Of the horizon
Where oceans
Fade into skies
Promise in your eyes
A reverie
Left behind
By ghosts
A past not meant to be
Yet a future possibility
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It is not in our darkness that we experience the utmost fear but in the wonder of light, where we cannot disappear.
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