Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Journey Of Pain

It feels like a bleeding wound

Deep inside my soul

It continues to pulse and ache

An endless emptiness

Another grief to stack against the charred cord-wood of losses past

A voluntary goodbye does not diminish the pain

No more than tomorrow will dilute the sorrow of today


I knew you once

And once you knew me well

Like a strangers dance

Ghosting past each other in the same path

To a discordant melody

Black butterflies rising and scattering from their tree


And again my wayward soul finds respite

A temporary shelter in the storm

Though my heart remains its captive

This wandering lilt of sacred pain

Birds dance and dart against the wind

Embracing my soul’s secondary nature

Alive and dead, then back again.


Within the suffering lies the strength

To bear the cross with You

As hoar-frost covers the ground

So misery covers me

It comforts me as knowing pain is to be closer to You in life

To die and to live again in Your shadow

To follow footsteps mired with pain

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