Short and Simple

 

 

Though my eyes are blind to see you,

I know that you are there.

 

-Mitchell L.Clark

Falling in the Dark

     Again, not the most positive poem. I wrote this one day a while ago when I was having a really hard time with one of my friends.

Falling in the dark

Falling from the light

Forgetting who I am

This dark is binding

 

Save me from this cage

Break me out today

I do not have the will to stay

 

My life is falling down

Quiet becomes a sound

I'm beginning to lose myself

 

I had the light before

I can't hold on anymore

 

Beauty is now a mess

Now all I have is less

 

I'm falling in the dark

Forgetting who I am

I've lost myself again

The other side of me is raging

 

Please pick me up again

You said you were my friend

or was it just another dream?

 

I'm sorry I'm not who

you think I ought to be

Why can't you understand?

 

I've done it all before

Now I'm lying on the floor

When will this torture end?

 

 I've tried and tried again

to be the best I can

I guess it wasn't good enough

 

Because there you go again

I thought you were my friend

 

Your knife is in my back

I give you some more slack

Then there you are again

 

I try and try to change

myself I rearrange

Yet for you it is the same

 

Can you just take me,

break me, just toss me over your head?

 

I don't want to live this lie anymore

Just throw me out and slam the door

 

It's you that caused me pain

to you went all the gain

 

Yet I continue to let you play me

 

There's selfish in your bones

I've lost all the love I've known

 

I've fallen to my knees

been begging you please

but you turn your head away

Play me a fool for one more day

 

Take me up, break me down

Throw my love for you around

 

Because you do not care

This friendship isn't fair

Yet still I ask you please...

 

-Mitchell L.Clark

Throw Me in this Broken Stream

Ok, first off, this poem is a little depressing, so I apologize for that, but when I write poems like this it helps me vent and feel better. Also, I wrote this about three months ago, so sometime in April or something.

Feeling you slowly slip away

I wish I could hold you close today

You just don't understand me

Can we make it how it used to be?

 

You had your arms around me

said "baby we were meant to be"

Oh wait, that was just a dream

Just throw me in this broken stream

 

Hurry, watch me wash away

before my heart's walls give way

I guess it was too good to be true

my life is now a deeper blue

 

I try to turn and run away

But I can't push you out of my life today

I need, I need to hold you near

to hear your voice, so sweet so dear

 

But no, I know, it cannot be

Just throw me in this broken stream

Just watch me slowly drift away

Our friendship truly died today

 

The end I feared and tried to hide

Now hitting me like an oceans' tide...

 

-Mitchell L.Clark

Imprisoned Before Freedom

For so long I sat in darkness

too long I only knew wrong

(I) felt careless, hopeless, heartless

With no right or beautiful song

 

I was taken, shackled, broken

I was tossed, tortured, thrown

I felt need to be woken

But no one understood my groan

 

I saw the light, I tasted it

For a moment I was set free

But again I fell into the pit

Before the light returned to me

 

Forever I will owe you, the freedom you gave me

For through your grace and love, your light has set me free

 

 

-Mitchell L.Clark

Lets start this off positive, shall we?

     I wrote this poem one day last year while I was bored in school. Don't know what class I was in, but hey, that don't matter right?

This poem is dedicated to my best friend, Savior, and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

 

Lift Me From the Ground

 

You're one whose always loved me

Held me down when hard winds blew

You gave me comfort in the darkness

Lifted me up when I felt blue

 

Gave me strength in my weakness

Helped me up when I fell down

Never once left me missing

I feel your love all around

 

You've led me on my way

On a road that is new

I'm not lost when You've found me

I am strong when I'm with you

 

You're the one who has saved me

From the darkness in myself

took me up and raised me

how could I ask for anything else?

 

-Mitchell L.Clark