3.05.2009

The List

So this is something that I wrote nearly three years ago. It is amazing to me to see how much and yet how little has changed for me. It's funny that this still says so much about how I am feeling. Maybe it really is this time of year...

So thoroughly have I drained myself, so unimportant pride begone
How do i tear the heart of stone to shreds so that only your heart of flesh remains?
Where do I go to pull myself up again?
How do I face you? How do I scream?
Explosions of fear and anger
Who would have thought a mouse could roar?
Can I let myself go? Do I share this utter tragedy?
Am I weak enough to run away? Do I have the strength to remain?
Can I speak with a look?
Will my heart break to share this pain?
Or mst I forever remain in the fear of never being heard?
If I speak, I am broken
If I do not, I am boarded up and forgotten
Oh, God! Teach me to scream!
To cry, to fall, to be broken down
To be vulnerable
Open me
Give me the voice I need to whisper
The ears I need to hear your own
Make me strong enough to stay
Weak enough to run away
From fear, from apathy, from unforgiveness
My pride is torn
Rip it from my trembling hands
Words unspoken whisper
Peace unimpressed percieved
Bitterness uninvited abandonded
Grace unaccepted lavished
Lips unsealed, mercy appealed
Tolerance is no longer the answer
Frustration
Anger, hate blocking my view
I can no longer see you
How did I turn? Where did i run to stand on my own?
Am I running for the sake of escape?
Or for the focus of problems already laid down?
Daily
Give up
Take in
Begin
End
Reconcile
Alienate
Forgive
Convict
Forget
Remember
Running never saved anyone
Fleeing doesn't solve the problem
Giving up when all is lost
When would we be challenged?
How would we grow?
My heart torn from it's colw unwelcoming birthplace
Thrown into your fire
Burned
Melted
Molded
Formed
Into the feeling beating passionate
Evidence of grace
Now truly a heart of worth
Pure
Whole
Uncalloused
Transformed
What is the meaning of words unspoken?
When is the moment they are transformed into defining truths?
Spoken secrets
Hidden pain revealed
Unveiled tragedy
Scars unseen exposed
Tears unfallen surrendered
Life and death
Turth and deceit
Joy and despair
Unexposed I hold too dear to this pain

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