Chain Gang

ok friends.. new blog challenge...

its a chain poem... we start with one standard verse and then you add another verse of any length of your choosing and the next person does too and so on and so forth. at the end we will have a poem that we all wrote together.... yipee!!!! my gosh i sound like a girl. i blame PHOENIX and CLOVER. anyway its my game so i get to play first..


Betrayed,
Dark clouds scream across the sky,
Blotting out the sun in my soul.

Et tu, Brute?
I cannot believe one so dear
could turn
and drive the fatal spear home.
If love had wages
surely pain could not be it? (PHOENIX)

Still, Paid in full am i,
Unsure who to curse..
You..
for you wrenched my heart out and and wrung it like a wet cloth
or Love
for she sent me the wrong way down a one way street.

Though I see collision
I cannot turn.
My heart will not take heed.
Like old black and white stills
scenes flash in warning
as I race toward my prize. (PHOENIX)

Emotions in full motion
The vehicle gains momentum.
The saving hour is passed
My destiny is sealed.
If only this cup could pass me by
Nevertheless- this was my will.

and my will be done.
Or so it always has.

Is there no end to this... myself?
The thing I love and loathe
and know and don't.
I saw you as saviour when I couldn't be
and hoped you could atone for my sin.
I placed you on the pedestal you fell from
and so I fell with you. (Phoenix)

Entangled in your deception,
Trapped in my imperfection.
A once promising sky fills with grey,
...Hope sinks eternal.

As the first drops pelt the earthI pause and looktoward the heaven
where once I saw despair.
I now find hope.
Can it be that at the end of my grace
I find a new Grace?
A Mercy that is new every day? (phoenix)

I have heard about this before
yet somehow i never believed.
How when all else fails,
And darkness consumes all i see.
There is still a light that echoes through eternity,
It vibrates in my soul, brings tears to my eyes.

I have heard about it before
yet somehow i never concieved.
That Light was betrayed and darkness reigned,
for this cause:
that Light could reign and darkness never again.
My eyes have opened-
I see beauty that makes this heart adore -
I see hope of a life spent with Light.

Once betrayed,
Dark clouds scream across the sky
that Light is risen.
The Debt is paid.
And the new Son rises in my soul. (Phoenix)