In that cold, moonless night
my feeble mind raced through
a thousand thoughts.
But those thoughts,
cannot describe what I was feeling
as I was giving my own life away.
As much as I wanted to start over,
I convinced myself that it was worthless.
I had already lost faith in the things around me,
I'd lost faith in the things I treasured most.
But most of all,
I had lost faith in myself.
I'd always left the door ajar,
hoping that my miseries would finally come to an end.
After all, I thought,
**would the world be any less different
after I had passed away?**
I waited,
and death came.
He had knocked on the door,
and said his warning.
Weak was I, not far from surrendering.
But at the last moment, I remembered.
The thousand thoughts, memories, feelings,
all coalesced into one faint memory I'd myself had forgotten.
One one overcast morning, the sun still rising,
a friend said,
**"I believe everything turns out well in the end.
If your life is still sour, then it isn't the end."**
Like a violent stampede hurdling down a hill,
or a tsunami reaching land,
every part of my faith was restored.
From the things I had once doubted,
reassurance came flooding back.
He gave another warning,
before kicking the door open.
I stood in front of him, and said:
*You are going to leave this house now. There is no one here to take.
Yes, I gave up. And yes, I decided to take my life away.
But He changed that decision, and turned me around.
And guess what?*
Today, isn't my day.
Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 10:30 AM UTC
In that cold, moonless night
my feeble mind raced through
a thousand thoughts.
But those thoughts,
cannot describe what I was feeling
as I was giving my own life away.
As much as I wanted to start over,
I convinced myself that it was worthless.
I had already lost faith in the things around me,
I'd lost faith in the things I treasured most.
But most of all,
I had lost faith in myself.
I'd always left the door ajar,
hoping that my miseries would finally come to an end.
After all, I thought,
**would the world be any less different
after I had passed away?**
I waited,
and death came.
He had knocked on the door,
and said his warning.
Weak was I, not far from surrendering.
But at the last moment, I remembered.
The thousand thoughts, memories, feelings,
all coalesced into one faint memory I'd myself had forgotten.
One one overcast morning, the sun still rising,
a friend said,
**"I believe everything turns out well in the end.
If your life is still sour, then it isn't the end."**
Like a violent stampede hurdling down a hill,
or a tsunami reaching land,
every part of my faith was restored.
From the things I had once doubted,
reassurance came flooding back.
He gave another warning,
before kicking the door open.
I stood in front of him, and said:
*You are going to leave this house now. There is no one here to take.
Yes, I gave up. And yes, I decided to take my life away.
But He changed that decision, and turned me around.
And guess what?*
Today, isn't my day.
Something I wrote weeks ago, but was left here because it was too long, so I chopped it up a bit. Currently working on a poem for school, so I'm posting this as a compromise.
(Thanks to Winter Silk for letting me borrow some lines from one of his poems)
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