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I want to live Not to focus on the end Or on ENDING it Not to see what’s wrong but right Try to see beyond darkness to light I want to try to dry my tears To think of the coming years To make a mark To be strong Not give up the fight I want to live And even when I wish for death There is that voice That whispers to go on To survive To leave something behind Death will come Soon enough In his own time He will come and call And take my hand But till that time I don’t want to flirt with him Or be consumed with thoughts Of joining him too soon In a bonding embrace No….I want to live! I want to laugh I want to dance To sing To write my little heart out I want to love I want to make love With a deluge of passion That bathes the universe in light A glowing, pulsating star of the night, I want to display...every hue of desire Matching…NO…outdoing the kaleidoscope light show Of the Aurora Borealis YES….I want to FEEL EVERY SENSATION I want to experience Ecstasy Exhilaration Elation Ebullience supreme Excitement galore What’s more I want to taste On my lips The saltiness of my own tears Tears of joy Of sated desire, but also Tears of pain Yes, even pain needs to visit The home of my heart For she makes JOY more precious Happiness more REAL For joy and pain are siblings In the family of feelings They visit at different times I accept each call Each visit Though unexpected I will act the host And try my best To focus on each visitor And converse with my heart And understand with my mind The reason why And THEN… I’ll determine To go on…. I NEED to go on…… To give and not expect a return To lavish and ravish With all I have With every minute particle of me TO LOVE…. To love… Myself For I need my own acceptance I crave my own praise I desire my own kindness I must train myself to see My own beauty to believe I have something to share I have words to gift Thoughts that could light up the world And if not the world To light up a face Oh, what grace!!! I want to live This moment NOW For the fabric of this garment Is sewn with the thread Of E T E R N I T Y Yes, I want to live... And I will... I WILL Eileen Manassian Ghali
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