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Hold my hand

Hold my hand
Help me understand
All the pain and suffering

Hold my hand throughout the day
Hold my hand lord I pray

Guide me to the light
I will not fight
If you hold my hand

Give me the strength through these trials
Refine in me a heart that's true
Make me broken and yearning
Because that's when I realize I need you

You are my savior and redeemer
But sometimes you seem so far away
Help me to know that you are constant
Never changing all inspiring your love is here to stay

When others around me have let me down
There you are with outstretched arms
Always willing to consol me
When worldly things have caused me harm

But you're also there in the good times
Like on my wedding day
And also in the birth of my children
I imagine you smiling while they play

But lord through it all there is a reason
Why I hurt and I cry
Please show me your purpose Lord
Make it known to me and I'll try

To hold your hand
While you help me understand
All the pain and suffering

I'll hold your hand throughout the day
I'll hold your hand while I pray

That you guide me to the light
I will not fight
Because you're holding my hand

Anna [blueribbonbn)
7/2008 posted 11/08

Oneless

Oneless plate at the table
One less pillow on the bed
Oneless tooth brush in the bathroom
Oneless goodnight before bed

oneless car in the driveway
oneless vioce in the hall
oneless  I love you
oneless phonecall

Oneless tender moment
Oneless hug and kiss
Oneless shoulder to cry on
Oneless- the one I miss

Onemore night alone
Onemore tear to cry
One more day of wondering
One more question Why?

One more heart is broken
One more asks for prayer
One  more prayer is answered
for new life partners is there

Oneless person hopeless
Oneless day alone
One more heart is healing
because the love you've shown.

3/2008 Posted 11/08
Debbie S

  just some writing

I feel my fingers slipping
  Holding on to the edge of a cliff
  Is there anyone there to catch me?
  Is there anyone there to pull me up?
  
  I hear a voice, so quiet
  Telling me to let go
  Hurts so bad holding on
  The relief would come if I just let go
  
  Another voice I can hear
  Telling me to give them my hand
  They’ll pull me up
  Help me to stand
  
  But letting go and reaching out
  It’s so hard to do
  Takes so much faith
  I’m not sure I have any left
  
  I’m left here hanging on
  Frozen in my fear
  But I know I can’t last this way
  A choice must be made

jmp19732000

1/2008 posted 11/08

Peace, tranquility, recovery, rebuilding.
Bomb implosion black hole.
Numbness.
Tired.
Sleep.
Waking.
Smile, nod, tending children.
Eat.
Twinkle, shock.
Tight hurt rage blinding shaking.
Darkness. Numb. Calm.
Cope, deal, live, cook.
Smile, play, hug, kiss.
Striking twinkle, blinding pain.
Tension aching bruised crushing
Rippling.
Darkness. Numb. Calm.
Home.
Apology, repentance, lies?
Wave.
Darkness.
Twinkles.
Searing scorching bludgeoning breaking.
Burning yearning fearing loving terrifying.
Tears.
Shame.
Hurt.
Anger.
Love.
Forgiveness.
Healing?

Raechel (8/17/06)
Posted 9/2006

The Lie

I still desire your touch, and yet and yet The night brings pictures that I can't forget.
I reach to touch your face but all the while I hear the lie that hides behind your smile.

Through all the pain, I find I love you still; I love the you I know, and always will.
I cannot love, nor can I even try,
The monstrous thing that smiles behind the lie.

Kate (kate2587)
(Posted 9/2006)

Contest

Hell was laughing on the day we met.

The Angel said:
They will have joy, in measure,
And their times of testing.

The Demon said:
I will put a distance between them
That grows into a chasm too great
    to cross.
I will give them suffering to
   last their lives.

And the Angel said:
They will have love
That binds them into one
And gives them strength to
    pass through fire.

The Demon said:
He will have a secret vice
That eats away like acid at their
    love,
And leads him down to that place
From which there is no returning.

But the Angel said:
Through her he will catch a
    glimpse
of Light that will illuminate all
    secrets
And a taste of tears that will wash
    away all corruption.  

The Demon said:
I will give her loneliness and grief
And despair so great her soul will
    be a wasteland.
She will long for death.

But the Angel said:
She shall have the sustenance of
    faith
And the grace of True
    Compassion,
That will bring her safely through
    this night.
She will long to see the face of
    God.

The Demon said:
I will take him.
And the Angel said:
We will take him back,
For he was never yours.  

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