Freedom from self

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    • slimgrady
    • Hello fellow poets. I am originally from a very small very remote town in the woods of northern Maine.The town had a population of 560 souls.I was brought up( in what some would consider to be) abject poverty.If I was I never knew it. Simply due to the fact that everyone around me was in the same "boat".I have been writing from my teens. I enjoy the woods to this day. I hunt fish and hike whenever possible.And through the years I've learned that there is a God and that I'm not it. "SLIM"

    Poem Commentary

    This is for the friends of Bill W.

    Freedom from self

     Once a bitter,anguished soul
    That dwell in an abyss
    Steeped in self-delusions
    That nothing was amiss.

    Glutted on self-pity
    Nurtured on falce pride
    With fear my soul companion
    In whom I could confide.

    I had no God to guide me
    No Angle heaven sent
    For all had now forsaken me
    Least that was my lament

    I had a myriad of excuses
    It was them! Not I the liar!
    For was it not life its self
    That cast me in the mire?

    But all the while,was my addiction
    That kept me from the truth
    For it has no sence of mercy
    nor clemency or ruth.

    Now prayer my only refuge
    I fall on shaking knees
    A scroundrel seeking mercy
    I ask Him humbly "please"

    And sence that day on humbled knees
    The miricals have past
    I walk now with the living
    A free man long at last.

    So join me now I beg you
    If you hunger to be free
    And your miricals will happen
    Just as they did for me.

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    arianne commented on Freedom from self

    11-20-2009

    I sensed the overwhelming joy of spirituality and moral upliftment in your lines, they're so inspiring...
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    Tempy commented on Freedom from self

    08-02-2009

    very nice, I like it it was a good piece of work.
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    slimgrady

    08/02/2009

    I am pleased you liked it. Thank you!

    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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