GRATITUDE

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GRATITUDE

IN ESSENCE IM PURE
UNLIKE WHAT THE STREETS MADE ME ,
IM THE TRUTH IN ALL ASPECTS
SO YOU LOVE OR EITHER HATE ME.
COMPASSION RUNS THROUGH ME
SO DEEPLY ITS TAKEN,
AS A WEAKNESS FROM MOST
BUT ITS THEM THATS FORSAKEN.
I'VE NOTHING TO PROVE
SO WHY TEST MY MANHOOD?
FOR ITS PEACE THAT I SEEK
AND A QUEEN THATS GOOD.
IM NOT TRYING TO FIT IN
-IN THIS LIFE AS I KNOW IT,
FULL OF CHAOS, DESTRUCTION, CONFUSION
I HOPE IT.
GETS BETTER THAN THIS
CAUSE WHERES THE LOVE GONE,
WHERE I ONCE SAW PEOPLE
WILD ANIMALS NOW ROAM.
IT'S SAD, PATHETIC, SORROWFUL,SADISTIC
COULD IT BE JUST AN ILLUSION?
IS IT REALLY REALISTIC?
SOMEHOW I CANT BELIEVE IT
'CAUSE GODS' NOT THAT CRUEL,
IF THIS IS WHAT LIFE IS
I ASK TO BE REMOVE.
ITS NOT THAT I'M COMPLAINING
BUT TO ME IT'S UNCLEAR,
MY PURPOSE, MY REASON,
MY CAUSE FOR BEING HERE.
I'VE NOTHING BUT SUFFERED
ENDURED ALL THIS PAIN,
IT'S THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
AND I CANT STAND THE RAIN.
BUT I GEUSS IT'S NOT ALL BAD
I SRTILL GOT MY HEALTH'
MY SANITY, MY FAMILY,
AND TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF!!!!!!!!

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Poetsheart commented on GRATITUDE

12-30-2008

Wonderful and Beautiful this cry from the soul! i can hear the despair but also the hope in the salavation you have recieved. Keep up the good work as your poems have been a blessing to me.

TJF commented on GRATITUDE

12-17-2008

I can relate to the essence of this poem - there MUST be a purpose - if not then it has all been pointless! Good writing TJF

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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