If I had the words

morose and peppered with self loathing, but HEY! it ryhmes...sorta

If I had the words

A gift of wings that would not fail

Set my sword

To perforate the veil

Cut this clinging death away

Let the light fall like rain

Solace on a summer day

But I’m bound

Dragging shackles and chains

Starving for grace

As I choke on the profane

 

Sacrificed my petty dreams

Bled out on the altar of fools

Propitious as light might have been

I let darkness set the rules

Circumstance stultifies the child inside

Nullifies the need

To hope for a greater salvation

My spirit fights but my head concedes

Lost in the chaos around me

If I surrender who will lead

 

And if by chance you went walking

Through the shattered past I’ve left behind

Pick your way through emotional wreckage

Find my inner child deaf dumb and blind

This failing hope will not carry me

As I struggle toward the light

And so I wait abandoned

As the world spins fast toward night.

I know the truth you cannot see

What I carry hidden in me…

 

Author's Note

see if you can spot the dogma....religious rhetoric...cookies for chapter and verse! LOL.

Reviews

[Helen Woodward]

I think it is in surrendering that we learn to succeed and in accepting that we are only human and not robots that we feel salvation in emotional terms. The entire piece is rhetorical in the good sense Tam and piety is not too high on the list of what I will remember about this poem.
Hope failing and truth hidden...I think all of us feel that at times. You have done a smoothe job in the forming of this with the unique style and phrasing of Tammy Boehm "The Author" It is very privileged we are to have you among us...*Bowing profusely*
Kudos on a very intelligent piece of writing....xxx

[Gandré]

Well done this one, a great poem! Inspiring without preaching, it is inviting the reader to look inside one's Self.

[Touché Armada]

This is just like ring around the rosary pocket full of poesy or was that a possie?
Hand me a tissue a tissue cause we all fall down.

Good write, you capture that common moment well.

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

You know i got a religion reading this! lol i do see some religious rhetoric and some hopelessness it seems and i too have the feelings .. this is one great poem so much to think on , shatterd past.. i too have obe of those..
Chloe
xoxo

I know how you feel, I get like that sometimes.
I enjoyed reading this, it's extremely well written!
-ST

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

The inner struggles of faith and hope certainly ring loud in this emotionally charged write... as humans we face many challenges and to doubt ourselves is natural, in the end it can be a great motivator to strive to be better... your words are raw and edgy but thats what makes us real humans.