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Anathema Maranatha

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RiverSong0708

Published: Jul 17, 2012

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Your lips are blue
Your heart is black
You are my sin
My crooked back

You are the poor
You are the prevalent
You are my headache
And all that's malevolent

You are a chill
An icy breath
You are my sickness
The kiss of death

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I feel that I've been posting some depressing stuff lately

I assure you that I am not depressed, in fact, I am quite happy

I am generally a very happy person, not quite an optimist, but I see the worth of my life and what God has given me and am absolutely ready to go forth and seize the day. Yeah, I'm a seize the day kinda person.
But, of course, there is no ignoring the evil seen in the world. I have had times where I feel like I'm not even in control of myself, as if when I look in the mirror there are two different people; myself, and. . .
Anyway, just as the Bible says I believe(and have experienced) that the human heart is utterly wicked, corrupt, evil, and depraved. There may or may not be a poem about that later

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There I go sounding depressed and evil again. . . Despair not! For I have overcome my trials

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Thanks!
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XoXo,
Melody Pond

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winterkate

Jul 18, 2012

First off, love the signature and the icon. Secondly...although the rhyme works well in the first verse, I fell like it's a real struggle for you to maintain it in the second, and that really takes away from the piece. That being said, I love the image of the crooked back - new, true, and very you, all important things in poetry.

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