He Wore His Battle Scarred And War Torn Soul With Pride
As he rose from the blood soaked battleground
He suffered in silence throughout the years
His war torn mind fuelled by his suffering,
Battled scarred ghosts there to remind him
Of the worst wars won by their plundering.
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His heart turned into a barren wasteland
A casualty of the battles wearing it down,
Until it became a graveyard of lost lovers
Beaten black and blue and left to drown.
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Life as he has known it, lies behind him
Every attempt to break him has failed,
He refused to surrender to the pressure
As his strength and courage is unveiled.
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He was left surveying the battleground
Standing alone with his blood soaked Soul,
Smoke and red raging rivers highlighted
As all the horrific battle scars take its toll.
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Now he wanders through the battlefield
Carrying the loss and painfully deep scars,
Standing as the man he has now become
A celestial being fallen from the stars.
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He has survived life’s worst destruction
To find he is now ready to learn to love,
Accept and honour this new version
Stitched together from the battles above.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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