Love Poem: This Hollowed Life
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Written by: Kristen Turner

This Hollowed Life

It's like your world is ending 
Everything comes crashing down
Can't catch your breathe
Down, down, down you drown

Waking in the morning
To another dreaded day
Going through the hustle
Just to keep the pain at bay

Escaping is what you want
Numbing you try to survive
Hating the world when you're sober
Hate yourself for getting high

Oh yeah-This hollowed life of lies

Going through the rituals
Crushing down your dreams
Drawing back within yourself
That icy devil makes you scream

The storm rages deep inside
Harboring all your guilt and shame
Fighting a losing battle 
You think it's too late to change

You hate the world when you're sober
Hate yourself for getting high
Numbing as a way of living
Living your hollowed life of lies

Then one day you see 
Someone who used to use
They were happy
No longer broken and confused

They tell you of a man
Who washed away their sins
They had found peace
Oh yeah- found peace within Him

You were tired of the hatred
You were tired of getting high
You were tired of living
Living your hollowed life of lies

You asked for forgiveness
You were hungry for more
You wanted what they had
They had opened the door

Now you're walking free
Free from the shame and guilt
With Jesus in your heart
You had been rebuilt

No more hating the world
No longer getting high
You laid your pain at His feet
You escaped that hollowed life of lies