You could've taken my life
But you instead stole its meaning
You could have used a knife
But you carved my heart out with scheming
You took the air from my lungs
Without strangulation
I pleaded with who you've become
But you'd heed no dissuasion
You're a snake in human skin
Who wears a charming smile
To lie and lure victims in
To get them to trust you for a while
Then you strike with no mercy
Decimating all their dreams
Your ****** does not set them free
They have to live with their screams

Everything you do is like a song
Written by the beat of your heart
When you're near I feel like I belong
I can almost hear the music start

The rhythm in the way you speak
Your grace built in your fortitude
Drives me to no longer feel weak
Your presence of mind, ends my solitude

I have never had love like this before
I never connected on a level this deep
You make me forget all I had to endure
Your loyalty comforts me when I weep

You are the treasure
That the hero wishes to find
at the end of the adventure
You are the most precious kind

That person that you can turn to
Who will never turn their back
Someone who is always true
and will be there when you feel under attack

You have all of my admiration
For fearlessly being who you are
You have all my adoration
For helping me get so far

You have all of my dedication
You have my heart from now until forever
My love grows with every conversation
This tie between us will not be severed

I want to be for you -
what you have been for me
To always be true
To help to set you free

You already have your freedom
As you've made every sacrifice
You know who you've become
So I will lean on your advice

You are a lover and a friend
My husband in my mind
With a love that knows no end
That people can seldom find

You've held me through the dark nights
When I didn't think I'd see the dawn
You showed me how to win these mental fights
When I think my strength is gone

You are my light when my eyes fail
You lead me back to where I need to be
You are my billowing sail
When I feel lost at sea

Sorrow Grief Trauma Fear
These are the shackles that I wear
These chains are forged in pain
They increase the weight I bear

I fight endlessly in this war
But my hands and feet are tied
I'm entrenched and I'm drenched
In the swamps of tears that I've cried

My soul weeps and is weary
My memory is my torment, not my friend
But I will keep trying and crying for God-
For Him to help put my suffering to an end

This is worse than all that I've faced
Fear cut deep as the broken heart raced
Anger resentment pain all were placed
Into the mind that God had graced
Faith was strong - peace and War interlaced

The war of the living
The Peace of the Dead
Carrying every misgiving
Life Hanging On by a thread
The heart dark and unforgiving
Steeped in its dread
The eyes with reliving
This is like breathing death she said

Die to me - all of my past
All tears I've cried like oceans vast
Let go of the Soul so downcast
Remember, remember to faith - hold fast
This restores the peace you seek - at last

She held the darkness like a dancer
Holds tightly to the other
She held spark and fire - a pyromancer
The flames whipped around her

As She spun with her love
The only thing that made her feel alive
the flames were her lover - they fit like a glove
Her risky tryst that few would survive

As people watched on in awe
this violent passion - that lit up the night
Wrapped her in the warmth of its claw
They stood wide eyed in its beauty and fright

Her masterful art and the sway of the rhythm
left them exuberant as she seemed so defiant
To the heat of her craft - she cracked the algorithm
As the flames swayed around her - completely compliant

It followed her will - it would not consume
It was Chaos and law, Confusion and clarity
It could point to the wisdom of life and doom
She was a jewel in the heat - truly a rarity

She collapsed to her knees fast to the sand
Twin flames on  a ball on the end of a chain
That she pulled with each hand
Which Wrapped about her neck and back again

The fire didn't singe but caressed her face
Then sparks flew up to the stars above
Fire hit the ground followed by dark embrace
Silence was her applause -
as she extinguished her love.

I burden myself with the memories
that flood my mind once again
It steals my peace and strangles my joy
The darkness becomes my friend

I hide in it like a child at play
Where no one else could seek
I let myself be consumed by it
I resign to being a freak

I was different than everyone else
I knew that right from the start
No one would let me forget
That I began life with a broken heart

I was alone from the time I was young
and nothing has ever changed
there could be an ocean of people around me
- I still would feel alone in my cage

I know where the key is
for the lock on the door
It seems that it's just out of reach
So, I settle in to suffer more