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    The Painted Shades of My Soul
    The Painted Shades of My Soul
    The Painted Shades of My Soul
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    The Painted Shades of My Soul

    By Anita Carter

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    Passionate and emotionally driven, "The Painted Shades of My Soul" is a journey into the raw emotion and wisdom that can be found in life's most tempestuous waters. Anita Carter has sought to capture the intensity of each emotion as it occurred in her life. Time moves us forward like the current of a river and along the way we grow and change. Those charged moments of transformation still linger in our beings and resonate within these pages.

    Anita Carter's poetry exudes beauty and power in its conveyance of life's moments of adversity, inspiration, and love. Each moment is captured, examined, and placed on the page in lyrical clarity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateOct 14, 2020
    ISBN9781735453712
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      The Painted Shades of My Soul - Anita Carter

      Author

      Double Edged Sword of Misery (Adversity)

      Emotion’s Vent Piece #3

      A downward spiral of unsteady emotions,

      Hard to control,

      Push me down into a bottomless pit

      Piercing my soul

      Sunrays beaming through my darkness

      The only light I can see

      Are being cut off with each entering thought

      Of Negativity

      And desperately

      I’m trying to use my rationality

      To stop my acidic tears from burning my eyes completely

      I can’t feign, it’s hard to stay true when feelings arise

      From circumstances that are unable to be minimized

      To know the natural state of my seed

      Would be distorted from what keeps me alive

      Causes all my desires to be acclimatized

      Unjust reactions brew within the living fluids inside of me

      Raging hormonal tendencies

      Cast me into a lonesome singularity

      Don’t think my sensitivity

      Is a newfound proclivity

      It’s just that my capacity to hold it within my self’s body

      Has become worn down with each and every difficulty

      I’ve had to deal with and overcome and try to take with a grain of salt

      Can’t look at my reflection for too long

      Without placing some type of fault

      Upon me

      Even though I possessed no authority

      Upon the occurrences and conditions and all of my contingencies

      And I try to tell myself what good is pleasure without pain

      How can you know how sweet the Sun feels if you’ve never felt the Rain.

      But still sometimes I can’t help, but surrender myself to a pitied state

      And it is there that I see the darkness and feel the guilty emotional weight

      Like mental lashes leaving unremovable scars on my mind

      Hope was stolen away making it impossible to find

      An equal balance of emotion, left me wondering why

      A serenity comes from the depression that hides inside

      Of me

      Is this real

      For when I close my eyes I can see

      Myself running away from all of my goals and my dreams

      Contradiction is friend to agony, slowly consuming my heart with sorrow

      No time left for me to borrow

      This truth kills my vision, stealing my tomorrow

      I am this woman whose soul would rather leave the home it’s known

      Than deal with voices that echo inside of a nightmare that shows

      People inside of a circle surrounding me

      Shouting obscenities

      Placing me into categories

      Dissecting the complex shades of me

      Until I become a simple fallacy

      Screaming who they think I want to be

      When all I wanted was to make them see

      The spirit that lives inside my body

      The soul that wants to be free

      Not in trying to forget my ancestry

      But to embrace all of God’s creations equally

      But my eyes

      But our eyes

      Be the trigger

      Creating our destiny

      To furthering my mind, to

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