Shepherd's Poetry

Inspiring Christian poetry blog for women!

Anger

by Melissa Shepherd

Try as I might –

I cannot. But spite.

Spite over-rules my every being,

until all is completely seeing.

Seeing the light within me

is all I ask to be.

To be free of the anger

-that consumes my being

until all is completely seeing.

The fire within me

consumes me to be

consuming over everyone else – you see?

Have you ever been so consumed

with anger so great that you fumed?

Where does this anger come

moreover, what does it ask for ransom?

It asks for my soul –

my every being and all.

The anger does not stop

until everything is consumed to the top.

From the tips of my toes

to the top of my head

it swirls and bubbles in me instead.

I wish that instead it would disappear,

however, every time I ask that, it would reappear.

Its ruthless rebellion within me,

asks me not to flee.

It asks me to give in and consume

my life, my soul, and everything.

Until all I have left is – nothing.

Not even the memory of me

-will be left.

Only remnants of someone

that was once in a drift.

I don’t want that – Do I?

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