A Battle Hymn

At the sound of a pulsing harp,
let your hearts pulsate the floor.
Crushing inner cloud, collapse
breath retracted, back protracted
knee joints snapped.
Trapped beneath the weight of
everything you lack.
Let your mindslack interact
with the fact that now,
All you have to do is ask.

When the breathing drum breaks
from the beat it was formerly bound:
let your bodies raise.
Shake the quake from your trembling bones
Heat retreating from the feat of fear rising
and fallen.
You slipped, fell upward, now rise.
Partake in the waking of your former unmaking,
Let this bass vibrate you to extricate arms from arms.
Getting louder: disengage, His war is waged.
Loudest now: praise His name!

Quietly the chimes unwind
Unbind hips but fists confined
Refined mind and loose-foot ready to...

CHARGE!

ABOUT: 2 Corinthians 10:4- For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things.

Landowners pt. II

They come waving their country flags in my face.

Each with his own textbook anthem

And self-proclaimed victories.

Medals glisten off their puffed-up chests:

"Ashley, I defeated right after her parents split for the second time."

"Oh yeah? Well I won Demarielle at a house party.
Two drinks in, her body was basically begging to be subjugated."

These are no noble explorers trying to make nice with the natives.

These are pirates and thieves that sleep on the dismembered isles of heartache.

Were they to dig below the surface,

It is not breasts and bottoms and legs they would unearth,

But connected-by-artery-and-vein chambers.

Still pumping for God's sake.

Still pumping.

ABOUT: according to a study conducted by the CDC almost 1 in 5 women have been raped in their lifetime.

Chemical Galley

Bright green means it's morning,

dark green induces dreams

There is no polite way to insert 

Neuroses inbetween casual conversation:

"Hi, how are you? 

A deluge of uninhibited emotion 

Is about to deconstruct;

Erupt bucked but breaking tear ducts 

At the faint smell of light,

At the feigned felt polite

At the slain and the slight."

Or

"I hear it's supposed to rain today,

What are the chances that you think

We will survive?"

Or

"The family is doing fine,

But the drugs could use a tweak or two."

You,

With the look and the awkward and the hole.

Whole mouths full of what we cannot say,

Weigh the unwellness against her weight.

Until one bright green anchor persuaded the bay

To let me stay floating what feels like upstream

Until I slid serene into one dark green valley

Fluid slumber- chemical galley,

Sailing seamlessly into a new dawn 

Beyond the crippling despondency 

I wave this freak flag triumphant-

Bright green means it's morning,

dark green induces dreams

about: Hydroxyzine Pamoate & Fluoxetine; they aren't cures for the anxiety and depression, but they help keep me afloat until the new system when no one will have to say "I am sick." (Isaiah 33:24)

THIS ARTICLE on depression and THIS ARTICLE on anxiety can also help.