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Drowning in Questions

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Drowning in a sea of damnation.

Trying to keep my head above the waves of what ifs,

Choking on the if onlys.

Wanting to know was it me who was not enough

Or was it you who did not care enough?

How do I survive this endless circle of blame,

Step away from what cannot be changed?

How do I walk away

When hope still lingers we can survive?

How do I let go and once again become

Whole?

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes

From a prompt on Kellie Elmore’s Website.

Not Alone

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When the hits keep coming

How do I keep upright

When all I want is to lay down?

How do I win

When all is against me?

How do I learn to love

When my heart is shattered?

My faith is hanging by a thread,

Fingers bloody and torn.

It would be easy to let go,

Fall into darkness

Let despair swallow me whole.

Light extinguished for all time.

Remember you are not alone.

There are those who have suffered

Felt the despair

The grief

The loneliness.

Learn what time has taught them.

Learn life goes on

Though it feels like the end.

Learn that when faith seems shattered

It is only around the bend,

Waiting for you to reclaim.

And most of all

Remember

You are not alone

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes

Prevail

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We Heart It
We Heart It

We fight for what is right.

We fight for hope of all living kind.

We fight for the right to choose our own destinies.

We fight for life,

And most of all

We fight for love,

But what if it is not enough?

What if, in the end,

What we fight for is not what we thought?

What if the cost is too great?

What if….

In the fight for freedom

We lose that which is most important.

Ourselves.

Do we lay down our arms?

Let those who seek to control

All they see, all they know,

Take what is not rightfully theirs?

In your arms the horrors around us

Cannot touch me.

I am safe for you are my strength,

My soul,

As I am yours.

As long as you are by my side

Together can withstand anything thrown at us.

Misery

Famine

Fire

Loss.

All will crumble into dust.

Hope will win out

And those who oppose us

Will crawl back into the darkness whence they came.

No longer burning with rage

But weak with the despair they sought to give.

We shall rise triumphant.

Our wounds will heal,

Our hearts mend.

We will make sure that those who wish to dominate

Will never again step foot on our land,

Or the hell they wish to descend upon us

Will be returned tenfold,

Because our hope

Our strength

Our love

Will always be stronger.

In the end

We will always prevail.

 

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes

 

To Hope for Forgiveness

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Ignorance breeds anger

Anger breeds distrust

So I walk away.

Understanding comes slowly

Remorse with sorrow is pain filled

Forgiveness a dream

Yet hope blooms eternal.

Warm hearth beckons

Will transgressions be forgotten

Will the door open

Or will it remain firmly closed

Love forever out of reach

Ending life as known

While darkness descends

Eternally

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes

Fate Foretold

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However hard I fight the inevitable,

strain against what fate has foretold,

I cannot stop what the feel of your skin

does to me.

Your lips soft

your touch tiny pinpricks

shivering across my skin.

Deny it,

rebel against it,

it does not matter.

In the end

I will always be

in body, mind and soul

yours.

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes

Hidden in Strength

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They say I am the strongest

that I can weather any storm,

be there to hold things together

while others collapse and fall.

What they do not realize

is behind closed doors

where prying eyes cannot see

is the child inside,

who does hurt,

who does bleed.

That even those who seem strong

can, in time, break,

the strength draining away

revealing the truth hidden deep.

The strongest of us have a weakness.

Even the strongest of us can fall and weep.

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes