To the future

Hope for a new beginning
Hope for change
Hope for happiness
Hope for a better way.

Peace to accept bumps
Peace to enjoy life
Peace to fill my cup
Peace to rest in His arms.

Joy a constant companion
Joy which lifts the happiness of others
Joy in the gospel
Joy to bring to all unhindered.

Love un-feigned
Love unbridled
Love without fear
Love the power of God.

Courage in Faith.

Numb

My heart throbs
the bruises enflame.
When will my heart be whole?

I wish to rip it out
To rid myself
of its sickening reminders.

Maybe without a heart
This loneliness would cease
And its sting lost.

So tempted am I
to void myself of all feeling
To be liberated from this emotional cage.

But my emotions rule
Easier it would be
to end life than end emotion

Numb I would be.