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Beauty In Everything

Posted on October 28, 2022 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

Whenever you start to doubt Whether life is good When you need a pick me up Go wander through nature Listen to the babbling brook…

Holes

Posted on October 28, 2022 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

We all have holes Gaps where we sense something Missing Some are people shaped We try to fill them With many things Both meaningless and…

Heart Full of Questions

Posted on February 8, 2022November 28, 2022 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

I have a heart full of questions What does it mean to be Christian In this day and age The book answer is simple To…

Can’t Answer Why

Posted on January 15, 2022January 15, 2022 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

Sometimes I cross a line I didn’t know was there Sometimes I sabotage myself Oftentimes I drink to much I dance back and forth across…

Learning to Love yourself

Posted on January 15, 2022February 14, 2022 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

Learning to love yourself It sounds so simple when said out loud It’s only 4 words after all Only 22 letters Only 6 syllables Yet…

Love Won and Lost V3

Posted on December 3, 2021December 3, 2021 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

I have loved with a love so passionate that it changed my life A love I never knew this once empty shell of a man…

Terrified

Posted on October 11, 2021September 29, 2024 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

I’m driving home From a great weekend Seeing and spending time with people I love and miss That I never get to see While I…

Angel

Posted on February 12, 2020 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

Another old one that from 2012 What once was naught but darkest night Doth now see a glimmer of light Where once naught but despair…

Love Won and Lost V2

Posted on February 6, 2020February 7, 2020 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

I have loved with a love so passionate that it changed my life A love I never knew this once empty shell of a man…

Love Won and Lost

Posted on February 6, 2020February 7, 2020 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

Love won and lost I have loved with a love so passionate that it changed my life A love I never knew this once empty…

Better Half

Posted on February 6, 2020February 10, 2020 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

You make me want to be A better person good enough to deserve you You enable me to write To feel to alive again Even…

Forsaken

Posted on February 6, 2020February 10, 2020 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

Sometimes I feel forsaken Sometimes forgotten They say you are always with me That you never leave me But I feel nothing I can’t see…

Skeleton Valley

Posted on February 5, 2020March 15, 2020 - Jordan Francis The Mad Poet

I stand in the midst of a valley of dry bones bones that are rooted into the ground like the roots of a tree. Singing…