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| Philip Carmens' Poetry |
| Growth Out of Hardship Out of the ash heap Grows a rose, Out of the wasteland A Life exposed. Exposed to the elements Alien ground, Dirty and dismal yet new life abounds. Thriving in hardship growing more each day, raising it's branches Joyfully. I am your Peace, Make Peace with Me A storm arose within your heart When someone spoke ill of you: Swirling around like angry clouds, Your restless emotions Thundered, and were proud. I speak to you "be still you winds; be calm your troubled sea If you would my servant be. For I desire a better you, Only asking that you desire Much more of Me". Come to Me Come to me upon the water, Come to me upon the waves. Even though circumstances do not alter. Worry is a worldly bustle; Activity a slave. Come to me as you are, The sea is calmer now. You are free to follow. Follow after. Free to stoop and bow. Overcoming They shade my world These overhangs of unproductive gloom, The sun through hinks of light Attempts to reveal my room, The room where I always come When trouble showss its ugly head. At times like this I sulk and brood And wish that I were dead. Even shadows cast their own shadows And beneath this equatorial screen I sweat out all my remorse and fears Of what might have been. Yet through the gloom my spirit looms As a a knight with sword in hand And wrestles to combat the gloom And with his help to stand The chinks of light fall over me They cast out all my fears. My knight has overcome the foe And in my heart new hope appears. Copyright Philip Carmen 2003 |
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