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Depression Decay

A slow sink
Descending decay
down into depression
How can it be
just when things
were up?
Life seemed
to be expanding
Now contracting
dark holes
inner bleakness
trapped will.

In the midst of the party
I leave the sound and noise
of human companionship,
Seek space
hiding in the toilet
waiting for receding
walls to wash
out the fear
still the chaos.

The mirror mocks

Can God find me?

Starting Thoughts:
Sometimes the noise, the people seem too much and we want to just retreat back into the walls. In the toilet area the mirrors mean we cannot escape our own reflection, the reality of facing ourselves.
Poem Topic Tags: #chaos, #decisions, #depression, #fears, #identity, #life, #mirror, #party, #self, #will,
Posting Tags: #artist, #christ, #christian, #church, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife
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Shalom

Reverberations shake
your foundations
crumbling direction
clouding vision
breaking tainting staining
even the best of who you are
The Loudest voices
embed claws of influence
dragging tears of
connecting dark echoes
into your soul.

Throw off the confusion
Cut the cords of chaos
the untruth,
Focus the blade on
removing distractions
carve out the dissonance,
infuse instead harmonies
of love
healing division
building the kingdom
on the Rock
revealing Christ’s truth,
Trusting
Bowing before the 
Prince of Peace
and embrace shalom;
perfect peace.

Isaiah 26:3

Starting Thoughts:
What is your foundation built on? How easily does your confidence in who you are crumble?
Poem Topic Tags: #distractions, #division, #influence, #peace, #shalom, #voices
Posting Tags: #artist, #christ, #christian, #church, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife
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Fire

There was a time
back in Australia
When all seemed congratulations:
The surface achievements 
A fitter turner in mines,
Dollars rolling in,
single life living,
Million dollar property
a dream for
a man with a life ahead
all right mate!

But hardness, loneliness
preying women
misfired emotions 
lurked in my uncle's heart,
spiders poisoned his mind
black arts
webbing it in fear,
Pieces and peace lost
to dark thoughts
and he was captured
in the mental health system
Confined bleakness
surrounded by good helpers.

The early morning
sunrise rose a new day
and he took a last walk
threading a life line
of purpose
false purpose,
A refillable cigarette lighter
fiddling its tune in his hand,
floating intentions
of burning the blackness
from his life,
an operation he said
on the phone the day before
"that I might not survive,"
He arrived
to front courtyard brick drive
surrounded by faceless
building institution windows,
carrying the weight,
seeking to burn the pain,
arachnids danced,
he twisted Destiny's cap
spun roulette
on a spiral thread,
Sprinkled the fluid
from the thin metal
container
splashed ashes to ashes
dust to dust
above his head
on his clothes,
And the decision clicked
in his fingers
Lighter spark flared,
Fumes, clothes, hair ignited
burning it all away;
Burning deep
Skin, flesh, black spiders
to suffer three weeks
burn care,
Finally, fading away
into death's fire.

He heard a call...
thoughts trapped
What do you hear?
What will bring you life?

#call, #christian, #death, #evil, #happiness, #hope, #identity, #loneliness, #mentalhealth, #money, #poems, #poetry, #seeker, #spokenword, #suicide, #videos
Using fire to find release, from black arts poem
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