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Subject: Tears Cry In Pain

Author:
David Young

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Date Posted: 01:53:35 09/01/02 Sun
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In the sorrows of life
Tears still cry in pain
Hearts still break beyond endurance
Storms of gravity flatten your purpose
To the point, it is no use to get up

Gloomy days pass gloomier shadows
So thick that the inner fog chokes
Losing yourself within the jungle of feelings
Knowing no direction that would even matter

Prayers are offered on the radio
Preaching so hard that they miss the point
Then asking money for their ministries
When all you need is someone to talk to

Boxed in with no way out
The room gets smaller than ever possible
The suction of the drain is vacuuming you down
Into the void of an existence

With the game over you resign to the fact
Wanting to never fight again
But fight you must

Clawing for every inch of respect
Bleeding so profusely
That the blood carries you forward
Against all the gaming odds

Scarred so bad that thorns do not hurt
In pain so excruciating that it must come
In the numbness of no known reason
You scream from deep within the torture

You inch your way up on pure adrenaline
From where it came only few know
Exhausted you rest against a crutch
Of a visionary that blinds your sight

My child whose soul has given out
Reach for the stars
Even if you can not see them
Your champions will soon appear in awe

In disgust others still talk
But in quieter refrains
For those that wished you ill
Have somehow turned

People start to assist you
With backward hands
For their sights still will not see you
But their faith is hoping yours succeeds

For it seems that people
Will always respect the impossible
Betting on odds so improvable
Seeking miracles from insurmountable obstacles

As a poet I have taken you full circle
Within the reality of life
So when you take thing for granted
Remember those whose thorns
Have created miracles

Thought: It is sad we are trapped by our ways to accept thing at face value.

D.Lester Young (08/31/02)
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright � D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry)

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Re: Tears Cry In Pain	Deb	10:27:57 09/01/02 Sun