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Fame Leanne King Jun 2014
Further my mind goes, than I believed it could fathom
Fathoms below even the deceased dreams chasm
Impassionately growing through and between atoms
To learn
There is no whole truth in solely words
Blindfolded, if your mind isn't where the memory occurs
So it's sure
We'll never understand more than we're capable to confer
And it doesn't mean, you can't relate to the way I toss n' turn
In my sleep
That it isn't the same color we bleed
Or that we aren't perhaps equally 'deep'
Just that we hold some nature of privacy in our thoughts, from any other's gaze
Did I mention it was books of seperate authors, though we're on the same page?
What I wish to relate today
Is I have been changing to date
I'm breaking, down just like anyone else
Draining my health
Enslaved by the chase of wealth
Smiling while we're high, but we'll retreat to our personal hells
The honesty is, I'm scared to delve into myself
Because I know where my truth gets ugly, and has no glamour
Not the 30 second commercial version of what it's like living with cancer
It's habits, actions and manner
Looming over my pride
Leaving a weakness in my stride
Making me feel tired before I've tried
Dr Peter Lim Oct 2017
Think not of life
like a lover
that it should be courted
( look away)
it has no sentiments
is hard at heart
and impervious
to persuading or pleading-

we are alone
all that's before us
is vague and murky
the roads ahead
bear no signs
we struggle by day
stumble by night--

to love is
to share
loads to unburden
but
life is none's partner
though so many
do claim
they have a pact
in secrecy with
this unknown
( self-deception!)

but I've long realised
life's on no one's side
and I wouldn't seek
its favours or blessings
I'm bruised
I suffer
I weep
while life watches
impassionately--

in my vulnerability
even in my desperation
I don't beg or beseech
though I walk barefoot
on its thorns-

pain is endured
through patience
and humility
through which
I'll transcend
all adversity--

I'm just an ordinary being
but will find my salvation
in personal suffering.
* an odyssey

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