Poetry has always been a huge part of my life. As long as I can remember, I've always used it as an outlook and a way to express however I feel. It spans from my feelings of the day, different situations, and even just poems that have no deeper meaning but are things I just felt like writing about. Either way, you could say it is a huge passion of mine.

I started writing especially during hard times. My life has not been easy, then again no one's life has ever been easy. Life is full of surprises, beatings, and flips and turns that could make anyone sick. I wrote this poem during a time in my life where I felt like I could not escape. It is filled with hope through God to deliver me through a bad situation. God and writing delivered me whenever I was stuck in anxiety-filled situations mixed with no friends and nowhere to turn.

This poem is called "Defeated." While it doesn't fully describe the hardships I was going through in that time, it gives imagery that with God I can get through anything and I can defeat the trials trying to defeat me. I wrote it as a way to cheer myself up and give myself and others hope. Hope Y'all enjoy!

Defeated

(By Madison Jones)

Defeated by the harrowing words,

Defeated by the corruptive world,

Defeated by the life advancing by,

Passing by with transgressions sky high.

Prideful words gashed self-esteem-

Of another human being who can only dream,

That one day all of these dreadful feelings,

Will turn into such blissful healing.

Defeated, demolished, conquered, bruised-

Yet letting the enemies win I surely refuse.

You can rip me apart shred by shred,

Never will I let it get to my head.

My God is stronger than any of your acts,

My faith is stronger than the will to react.

Nothing can hold me down, and nothing can chain me up-

From your wounding vocabulary, I have had enough.

For the pain and sorrow, you have brought me will never kill me,

Broken from your treacherous grasps, I am finally free-

Free to live and free to express,

I am no longer suppressed to do my best.

Your words and actions flew like daggers to my chest,

I dodged them all for I am blessed!

Blessed by my God who rescued me from your bondage,

No longer do I adhere to your wreckage.

Lessons I learned while being in distress-

Have shaped me into who I am must I no longer stress,

Because I have built up an unbreakable foundation,

Let your wrongful doings be in a state of cessation.

I consider at all the years that I spent,

Exhausted for mentally and physically I was bent.

Attempting to prove my worth and for what?

The door I tried to fight my way through was already shut.

Disappointment ensued, but that did not matter,

God had a plan for me that would shatter-

Shatter the remains of your failed attempts,

To bring me down and keep me exempt-

Exempt from peace and exempt from happiness,

Deceit was your model along with craftiness.

You have been forgiven but no longer will I be cheated,

I have finally flourished for you are defeated!