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Sweep Me Up

January 28, 2023January 28, 2023Vonita Leave a comment

I love you my darling

I love you my sweet

I need you to hold me

I need you to sweep –

To sweep me forever

In your hidden charms

To hold me my darling

In your loving arms

I know it’s not easy

I push those away

That dare to tread closely

Or otherwise stray

Away from my touch

Away from my words

But love me my darling

Forever I’m yours

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Break My Fall

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022Vonita Leave a comment

Massage my heart

I plead of thee!

Iron out those pleats 

Of pain.

In all my desperation, Lord 

I look above and

Search for thee.

I look towards blue skies above 

And learn again of thy true love.

Though I may fail and stumble, crawl –

An outstretched hand will 

Break my fall.

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Ripped Apart

February 14, 2022Vonita Leave a comment

And so the pain I suffered lifetimes ago

Buried far beneath ten layers of snow

Simmered and stewed and viciously grew 

An explosion came as it threatened to do

The band was ripped and all laid bare 

My pain is raw, love was never fair

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Twisted Sword

September 19, 2020Vonita Leave a comment

I’m facing my demons

The fears that encroach

Terrified of battles

That each day invokes.

Night arrives swiftly

Twisting the sword

As seconds then drop

Into pools of my blood.

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Pain

May 18, 2018Vonita 2 Comments

The first cut

Apparently

Is the deepest

So I sliced myself

Over and over and over

Again

So I would never feel that

Lonely depth of pain

Anymore.

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Relentless

May 17, 2018Vonita 4 Comments

A black hole grows inside me and threatens to swallow me whole

The more I cast into it the more I am consumed

I am being eaten alive and the pain is

Relentless.

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Splintered

May 7, 2018Vonita 3 Comments

If it was only a single splinter that had

Lodged inside my tender flesh

I might have endured the pain

A billion splinters have stopped me dead

Gingerly I remove them

One by delicate one

So that I can live again

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Connection

November 24, 2017November 26, 2017Vonita 5 Comments

In those moments of pain

When the raw wounds of my heart

Gush their vivid shades of red

I hold out my hands to feel the

Warm pulsing rivers

And in doing so

I allow myself to connect

To my own bleeding precious

Truth

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Words with Power

August 29, 2017Vonita 2 Comments

If it was pain you wanted to cause 

Then you absolutely did choose the most

Perfect words in season 

To cut through my bravado –

My flimsy self-protective layer

Thrusting your sword with power

Right through me.

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Desensitized

June 21, 2017Vonita 4 Comments

Sometimes the first cut really is the deepest

The blood is redder, more vibrant, gushing

The pain is more bitter and raw 

And then after more cuts follow

Cut after cut after cut after cut

Once previous tender flesh 

Is scarred over and over again

And when taking the time

To stop and notice 

There is no more pain.

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