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Alyssa Underwood Mar 2020
My depraved soul's unearthed
By the Holy Ghost's breath
And given new birth
Out of spiritual death

This wretch is turned 'round
Fit with eyes to believe
A lost sheep is found
And her Shepherd received

My blots are each edited
Out in Christ's fount
His righteousness credited
To my bankrupt account

A prisoner's been pardoned
No debt left to pay
A heart which was hardened
Becomes pliable clay

My life's set apart
Now from worldly regression
Picked out from the start
Made for Christ's own possession

I'm purchased with blood
Shed on Golgotha's tree
A slave bought by God
And fully set free

My sins were all laid
On the head of a Scapegoat
Who carried their weight
To a desert remote

Once an object of wrath
And deserving hell's fire
But Jesus took my bathโ€”
Conflagration of God's ire

So an enemy no more
I'm brought into God's fold
Carried through His door
And out of night's cold

He calls me His child
His heir and His bride
Though once an orphan wild
Now seated at Christ's side

And soon He'll return
When salvation's complete
When no longer I'll yearn
For His own face I'll meet!
~~~~~~~~~
anna Mar 2020
๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ -
๐˜‰๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ
๐˜Š๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ
๐˜‹๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ.
๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ
๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ญ, ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ด,
๐˜–๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ, ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ถ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด.
๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ
๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ
๐˜š๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด
๐˜๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ
๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ -
๐˜๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด, ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต
๐˜ˆ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ
๐˜ˆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ด โ€˜๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฎ.
Falling is romanticised quite a lot, eh?
Andrew Layman Mar 2020
When it settles
it clings to my lungs
and I breathe in,
until it becomes me.

Whether ash or rust I can not say
but it binds to me either way.
What I am becoming
from setting sun to dawning day,
be it man of dust or man of clay;
I do not know
I can not say.

Perhaps----
mercy forfend,
the breeze will carry me away.
Cast down the street in piles and droves
spread out to where other humans stay,
forgotten like scattered salt,
or neglected ashtray.

Flakes of prayers
left to swirl about,
and gather in the storm,
or lay sleeping in the gutter.

Perhaps---
There might be a day
in my sojourn,
where it shall be
my humble priviledge,
to renew the ground where youth can play.

But with arid lungs,
without mouth and tongue
I do not know
and I can not say.
CONTAGION, Copyright ยฉ 2020
Andrew Layman
All Rights Reserved.
pierrot Feb 2020
I'm tired of dancing with the ghosts
you left behind
I was never yours to haunt
nor mine to torment

this house feels more whole now

I had it
exorcised
Frances Marie Jan 2020
Your mouth is a smoking gun.
Reloading for the next reply,

After insults have been fired.
Shoot me down where I stand,

Silence me before the quipped-barrel clicks.
Triggered, you shoot the messenger,

Before our story had finished.
Started out simple but kind of became about the past ghosts who tried to put me down. But I'm back for my redemption. Taking back my life to where I want it to be.
Mikhael Jan 2020
DISCLAIMER:
This was the moment I felt like I've lost hope and any chance of being well. Hello Poetry allowed me to communicate my thoughts with others during those times I felt I was most alone. This was never published, because I lost interest in this account, and at the time I thought it was pointless. However, I slowly reminded myself of my worth. I slowly picked myself up, and decided in that moment that I will never let another person's thoughts or feelings towards me decide how I will live and experience this life that I was given. I reached out to people who I long forgotten and opened up to those who I trust. I found my support system who until this day are the same people who I can run to without judgement during those times that I feel vulnerable.

I lost many "friends"; betrayed by my own flesh and blood; and felt lost most of the time when I needed to find myself. I keep a smaller circle, but it took some getting used to after being a person who kept a lot of people around himself for most of my life.

All that being said. I hope that this can be a reminder that losing everything you thought was good in life is not losing everything at all. At the end of the day, no matter how bad the situation, we can all find another reason to keep going if we only dig deep, trust, and believe in ourselves.

For what it's worth,
I lived for you;
However, my existence ceased to be,
Because of you.
Tyler Matthew Dec 2019
Perhaps I am yet unwise in most ways
and do not know the meaning of many slight symbols,
nor do I fully grasp the importance of free will.
But I have seen my share of death and life,
I have tasted the fruit and likewise spit it out
back into the palms of those who fed it to me.
I have heard one too many sermons desperately tempting me into salvation as it has been defined.
Short-sighted as I am, though, I have abandoned the house of the lord
to build my own here on earth.
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