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Fri 27 Aug, 2004 05:26 pm
Life's Tolls
The lonely mind, the hopeless time that sets it's deadly snare
The empty hole that traps the soul and leaves you in despair
Your misery is plain to see as deeper and deeper the wound goes
Life becomes hell and you know well the devil is more friend than foe
You take a drink, and further sink into the blackness of your doubt
The hurt subsides and like the tide the whiskey washes the pain out
But tides return and soon you learn of downed whiskey's cruel blow
So you battle on though hope is gone praying to gods you do not know
Upon your knees hoping to please those same gods you always shun
To save your life from internal strife and all the wrongs you have done
You bow your head and tears you shed over choices that you made
Then realize the tears you cry are simply life's tolls being paid
The price is steep and on you weep as your heart begins to heal
You pay the toll to free your soul of all the pains that you feel
Alive once more you close the door on a world that is gone
And you stand, a new man knowing life's road continues on
what a rich way to describe what I have been feeling lately. I could relate . The depth of this one is
incredible, the emotional reaction strong. Great work by the way I just emailed you :wink: Very touching and thought provoking. You show great depth in writing here! Really good piece!
Very nice
I think you speak for millions of us. No one get's off this earth alive, it is in the valley's that we grow and learn.
People who have the ability to put their thoughts and feeling's into poetry should do so because there are those of us who still struggle.
Thank you
thanks
Thanks for the comments, it's nice to get some positive feedback.
This one was written with the bitter taste of divorce still fresh on my palate.
Thanks again
And a good divorce poem it is :-)
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