Hannah Gilchrist Poems

I feel two feet taller today
I feel the warmth of the sun on my face
I feel the wind swirling around me,
Drawing my clothes
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No need to count the hairs on my head;
You carefully manufactured each one.
No need to memorise the colour of my eyes; you designed their every hue.
Your seal is imprinted on my fingertips.
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Attitude or art
Brylcreem or bangs
Combed or curly
Dapper or dangling
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Bruised reed and and smouldering wick
The wish to die just a little bit
Beautiful darkness
Pressing me in
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Disillusioned, Despairing
Trusting God when you can't see, feel or hear him

Though you shelter me with your wings
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Before God penned the universe,
He planned your every day.
He sealed your name in His book,
And he'll lead you all the way.
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Holding my heart in your hands
My life drifts through them like sand

A love that hurts, it's so raw
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The glow of sand beneath her feet,
In flowing white, she walks along the beach.
She senses you in the glint off the ocean.
She feels you in the warmth under her feet.
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Bare & broken, I stand before you.
My crippled and tortured body falls away.
You behold me as a child.
I see myself through your eyes;
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