Finishing the Fight

Effort
The bane of a life
The slow way they beg me to die

This war
Has taken its toll
These pale deaths that I call my life

I can't
Continue to fight
Under the red fog I'm in

So today I fall
To finish the fight
That never would begin
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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March 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Sad but,very well written Derek. - oxox Anne-Lise
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