Pain

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  • Longing
    • Wesa
    • is staying up too late. Again.

    Poem Commentary

    I was probably seriously depressed when I wrote this; I know I was angry - the reasons don't matter. Still it says things I really do believe: that each of us has a purpose; that we cannot die - except possibly by our own hand - until that purpose is fulfilled. I wish I could find my own purpose - I'm ready to be quit of this world.

    Pain

     I believe that each life has a purpose
    A meaning we choose before birth
    A lesson we set for ourselves
    Or a debt we must pay here on earth

    Tell me what I must yet learn
    What purpose I somehow forgot
    What karmic tie I must burn
    'Ere I can return to my God

    ... I'm tired

    What is my purpose?
    What must I give?
    What must I learn?
    Why do I live?

    I can sometimes feel Death hover nigh
    The Angel I think I love best
    His breath brushes my cheek in a sigh
    But I can't yet return to my rest

    God, show me the way to come home
    Else give me the peace that I crave
    Give me a reason to live
    Or let me crawl into my grave

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    rsalassi commented on Pain

    10-22-2010

    Yes, you do bring a simple honesty to your poem here in such a way that even this old agnostic can find no argument.
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    Olan01 commented on Pain

    10-11-2010

    This is a lovely poem and crafted well, my new friend. Dwell in love, peace and freedom, Olan
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    Wesa

    10/11/2010

    Thank you, Olan. That means a great deal to me, coming from 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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