Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Struggle

  • Weakness

    When the world is crumbling beneath your feet

    No path to go forward, nowhere to retreat

    Plans go up in smoke, life’s not what you know

    Where do you run to, where do you go?

    When you’ve fallen down so many times you can’t count

    Too tired, too broken, but still battles mount

    It feels like you’re losing more fights than you’ve won

    Where do you find the strength to keep on?

    When the road just keeps turning and winding so steep

    The obstacles mount, it’s near too big a leap

    You wonder if you’re even on the right road

    Where do you find new speed when you’ve slowed?

    There’s only one place of sufficient grace

    He’ll walk with you, whatever you face

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  • Trapped

    I’m fenced inside a cage again

    Trapped in fear and isolation

    Self-destructed my safety guide

    Burned all the bridges to the outside

    So now I rail against the bars

    Resist, shrink back against old scars

    I’m stuck, I realize now too late

    I’m lost and hopeless in this fate

    No – loss is losing those I love

    Concern and care will rise above

    The pit of greed, self-pity, fail

    I will break free of this trapped jail

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  • Villainous Character

    You’re so bad, you’re so messed up

    You live to manufacture pain

    Your only wish is others’ hurt

    To take their loss for your own gain

    You lie in wait to pounce and steal

    While hidden in the dark of lies

    You strike to plunder and destroy

    Another’s life your greatest prize

    You have no shame or guilt at all

    The world owes you for all you’ve lost

    Others should hurt and suffer too

    Revenge has a bottomless cost

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  • Never Give Up

    The storm has finally broken

    We stand here in its wake

    Battered, bruised, and weary

    But we would not break

    The quiet calm belies

    The fragments left behind

    A long road still ahead

    Life’s pieces we will find

    The dark, malicious threat

    Lurks in the background still

    But we have strength to fight

    And beat this foe we will

    We never would give up

    With faith we know we’ll win

    Claim victory in His power

    And rise up strong again

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  • Low Point

    No words, no thoughts, empty inside

    Worries, feelings, can barely hide

    Try to reach out, you know you should

    Wrong things, wrong time, misunderstood

    It’s okay, it’s just today

    You won’t always feel this way

    Jump in, get back into the game

    You’re still so far from where you came

    You really have good things to share

    And people notice if you’re there

    A low point means you’ve grown somehow

    Things will start getting better now

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  • Hard Road

    It hurts to keep on falling down

    To spend time getting off the ground

    I wish for perfect, no mistakes

    But now I see the time it takes

    Until the skill is learned and found

    It hurts to try the best I know

    Then pangs of judgement haunt me so

    I want to always call it right

    But I can’t tell from this new height

    Always the certain way to go

    It hurts to walk in paths so new

    Break in a trail where thickets grew

    I look for markers of the way

    But I can’t in the safe place stay

    And reach the place I should be too

    Sometimes it feels so hard to do

    But the only way forward is through

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