Self-Pity Is Self-Destruction

I just realized here I am looking down on myself. Literally living off my own self-pity. 
Drowning myself with my memories of all the people  who have hurt me .I was literally 
sitting in a pool of my own self-pity. Me that’s all  I seem to think about. I spent so much 
time just thinking of things to drown myself with and reasons why the hole world should fell 
sorry for me. I realize I seem to have forgotten why people wonted to hurt me. It was 
because all my life I took on a role of protecting people. The very people who later turned 
there backs on me. Everything I went though was for a good cause. I was standing up for 
people who had long lost there own voices. I protected them and I built them up. I stood with 
them and sometimes when it got hard I carried them though it. Now that I remember I can 
hold my head up high and live my life with now knowing that if I could  go back in time I 
would change nothing.
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May 19, 2016 at 2:24 PM
Offiong Effiom, creative and well done. Thank you for sharing. **SKAT**
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June 13, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Love this poetry here.... what can I say.. try to never feel sorry for myself even if things are too bad. Poetry saved me... enjoyed this and good night.
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June 10, 2009 at 4:11 AM
Welcome to PoetrySoup Offiong. I am hoping to read many more poems written by you. Love, Carol
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