There are things as a boy
I discovered revelations made on things that hurt and watching her

Dearest sister, I learned wounds
don't heal under armour plate

deep rage only masks the

healing strength comes to you
any time you blow illusions away,
any time your heart calls

I sit
And I listen
And what I hear is
They are ashamed
They are trapped in what they believe
Is

Oh Lord, my God, please heal me
Strengthen me so I am not destroyed.
Oh Lord, my God, forge me

Love find the shards
that cut and shred my trust.
Encompass and hold
the jagged pieces that

DIVINE COMEDY
 
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in our individual hells
we spoke to each other.
you told me of your

When Healing Feels Unwelcome.

Despair is a drug that lulls the mind
into a void of apathy and

ALABASTER



She is singing just behind him where he sits

Touching him hands lightly brushing

HYMNAL

Still
Room
Alone and empty
Lovers lying together

She
Whispers to him quietly
In

OSIRIS

i

I approach the stones of your palace
in silence, each step a promise of lightness

MINNESINGER

Why do I pluck these words out of air
Except to open your heart?

What is this

JOURNEY’S CLOSE

a man from a burning house
i ran over fields over biting stone
wounds

SHE RETURNS

After so many years
She is returning

We have held the gates
So

We ran to place of safety
my surrogate dad and me
away from the guns
a place by the sea
the past

Behind these eyes
lies a man
you'll likely never know
a network of scars
but a healing

Selfish words
usually the sole preserve
of an already wounded soul
attack wont help
but

They do not die
secrets don't sleep
not alone in mankinds breast
for all time they keep
within

How do you explain
that a dream can be so bad
and that the thing you crave so much
is sleep

The truth can be
a terrifying place
for a gentle soul
kinder to be spoon fed
comfortable

Some truths too dark
to inflict on warm hearts
smile then instead
and entertain
with hope that

The truth
can be a weapon
inflicting brutal wounds
on kind and gentle hearts
suffering as a

Forgiveness is banded round
some fix-all for grinning buffoons
but in truth
it's enough
that we

Another life, another time
another town in yet another country
moving from place to place
too

In your mind you confuse strength with hostility
but deep down you know its not right
you could be

Bad, bad
the kinda thing most don't survive
lucky to be alive
'cept luck didn't play a part
a

An ink stained memory
what you became
in the farewell I scrawled
bearing your name

You think you bested me
but it wasn't a fair fight
there were more of you
and you had guns
but I

You are not forgiven now
nor will you ever be
A healing angel freed me
from that obligation
I'm

I have friends
I'm not alone
Wont be silenced
for what you've done
you thought it was bad
first

She revives in me
hope and spirit
my nourishment
when young and free
a beacon of love light
in

Oh what a fucking great catch YOU were
green teeth and toxic fart breath
big black facial warts,

When I wake
there's a chance
that I've been
to hell and back again
and the thing's that I've

They tried to break me
they weren't the first
in no time I was back in the saddle
I laughed at

Eventually
I wanted them to finish it
sick of the pain
broken I thought
beyond repair
bits of

Oh little keyboard warrior
so you "respect the fight" do you?
allow me to explain
just where

For decades and since a wean
blue my colour of choice
but one day
my healing angel walked

They burst in on the lad sat reading
far away from home, doing his duty
the laughter stung
books

BREATH

Is it possible
To cradle your neck
More than I have done?
To whisper you to

WINGS

nothing is finite
all is infinite
all plays into the
Eternal
this moment
will always

VEIL

you unveil your sorrows
to me.
i hold them like a Virgin Birth,
cradled in my

CHALICE GARDEN

I brought you here, your guide,
To this place that had played such a role
In my

Forever lover, find me
Take a chance with me
Date me
Laugh with me
Sing out loud for

Before his love,
she had been afraid
before his touch,
she had been ashamed

Mirrored in a