The Unraveling

one word to describe every year of my life

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The Unraveling

i. Stirred
from dusts into creation;

ii. Witness
to the weight of love;

iii. Twirling
along with fairytales' pulsation;

iv. Learning
that fairytales aren't enough;

v. Stretching
my roots into friendship's soil;

vi. Confronted
with compassion's weight;

vii. Burdened
for harvest-fields yet untoiled;

viii. Tumbling
down the harrowing hollow of hate;

ix. Enshrouding 
hope's flesh in a casket named "fear;"

x. Digging
the hole into which the casket was buried;

xi. Dissolving
in grief as the box of death disappeared;

xii. Hostility
blooming where hopefulness tarried;

xiii. Repulsed
by the monster I saw in my frame;

xiv. Trembling
bones bound up by bitterness;

xv. Jolted
awake to the Sunlight aflame;

xvi. Romanced
by the hymn of redemption's kiss;

xvii. Sowing
my prayers in a labor of tears;

xviii. Rhyming
my heartbeat with the presence of God;

xix. Waltzing
until I untangle my fears...

I shall add to this poem as I add to my years. 

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