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Testing Time

This truly is a testing time when all around seek cause to find something wrong with everything that come out from my mouth or mind. So easy now to let them win and join their game… retaliate, much harder still to stand my ground while others seem to plan my fate. Convincing people they’re not right in treating others with contempt but try to aim them at the light and help their nasty streak repent. I may not win this fragile fight to change the ways of those I meet whose presence leaves an ugly trail, for this is truly quite a feat. If just one should mend their way and find within a calmer soul so they can help the ones they greet and not make hate their only goal, then I will claim one battle won by turning cheek to evil deed and helping those who’d put me down by perpetrating evil’s seed. But caution guides my every step when walking close to evil’s gate for truly I could scorch my soul …………..if tempted to retaliate! Ivor G Davies

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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