What Can't Kill You Makes You Stronger

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    Telling the self what can't kill us makes us stronger is a good reminder that we can overcome all things if a difficult situation hasn't destroyed us. Here in this piece I decided to add a twist to it by looking deep within ourselves.

    What Can't Kill You Makes You Stronger

    I lay there awake. A sleepless night or so it seem.
    Suddenly I fall asleep and behold I have a dream.

    A troubled man I see, but I can't see his face. A
    lonely figure he is as he stands there in his place.

    He stands there all alone. It's a war and he's the
    solider. Sometimes he feels like giving up. He wishes
    the battle was over.

    This "battle" that I'm talking about? The battle of
    the mind; the clock is ticking away and he's running
    out of time.

    He often sits alone. More than often he feels depress.
    He's young and he's blessed; so what...he couldn't
    care any less.

    He tries to show love, but its shoved back in his face.
    The more he tries to show it, the more he's the victim
    of hate.

    He thinks of all the scenarios and how it could've
    been. I guess it doesn't matter now; his life he
    wants to end.

    Standing there with head down; how much more can he
    take? He says, "I'll just kill myself and simply leave this
    place."

    I tell him, "What can't kill you only makes you stronger."
    He doesn't acknowledge me and I can't take it any longer.

    I step to him
    I come a lil closer
    Enough with this suspense!

    I'm thinking
    I'm wondering
    This dream is now intense!

    I hold his head up high, because his face I wanted to see. To my
    shock and utter dismay, this man turned out to be me!

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    LadyL714 commented on What Can't Kill You Makes You Stronger

    01-27-2011

    With the exception of a couple of typo's, this is a great poem! It begins rather slow then peaks leaving the reader wondering how it will end. And what an ending...!!!

    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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