Nevertheless

I’m scared
Of what your love
Will cause me to
Face about myself

Nevertheless

I’m confident
That your love
Will guide me
Safely through

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This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken

Flee

All it takes
For me to flee
Is a sharp look
From you
Directed at me

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This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken

Running

I’ve been running
For so long
That I’ve forgotten
What scared me
In the first place

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This poem is from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken

set the darkness alight

when pain turns to might
the blind gain sight
but try as they might
they can’t handle the light
so accustomed to darkness
truth brings fright …

rodents delight in their self created blight
reluctantly fleeing the cat’s tyrannous bite
unable to fight they turn to flight
returned to the sewers
hiding till night
then forming packs of righteous right
they write of spite and unquenched appetite
they sight the slight and ways to incite
they observe the oversight and offer an invite
then wait
for their revolution
to set the darkness alight

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This poem is inspired by the book How To Write Evocative Poetry