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Premium Member Perserverance

This is the 
first year without you
my heart breaks
I miss you
so much that I wonder if
I can perservere

Cheers for champs

(Naani Poem).
Seeing life's stuff through,
Cheerings all champs, we are
Surviving, thriving
Thoughts, love for human race.

Cheers for champs

(Naani Poem).
Seeing life's stuff through,
Cheerings all champs, we are
Surviving, thriving
Thoughts, love for human race.


Premium Member Pearls - Two Line Quote


"To make pearls out of grit
is to make sorrow and hardship a thing of beauty"

The Dance

Every night I dance with the memories
     and all the pain.
When I wake in the morning
     I'm never the same.

All day I go through
     with a constant ache.
Questioning the day's resolve
     and will I make.

And then like a butterfly
     my spirits lift.
No more rowing through life's current
     now I just drift.

Falling asleep to the music
     of all songs I chose.
Each tune playing a memory
    as my eyes close.

The melody of hope
     to fill the heart.
Last night of the wrestling
     the dance to part.

Oak Tree

Though torrents
of blinding snow
fall furious
though storms
spit lightning
cracks limbs
shreds my cloaks
diminishes me

reckon this

I endure
I fight
I prevail

My stoic
resolve undaunted
stars
those intemperate
fools
twinkle and die
the sun and moon
adulterers in
their affections.

My roots run deep
staunchly permanent
inside Mother Earth
I am steadfast
my presence
constant
immutable.

Ever to weather
Father Time’s
irrevocable
irremovable
perpetual
march
I remain
I persevere
I abide.


Feast

I feel that I’m climbing, while rocks they all fall.
Though I’m barely moving, at not even a crawl.
I keep to the shadows, under cover of night.
It’s only in daylight, where I truly feel fright.
there blinded by radiance, I’m stripped to the bone
that’s where my weakness, and flaws are all shown.
Renewed through the torment, like rising from ash
I picked up my burdens and I re-slung my sash.
I fought to be kneeling, I rose to my feet. 
I realized my sorrows were only skin deep.
My eyes to the heavens, I scream out in pain.
I’m seeing it now, I’m the one to be shamed.
I’m forgetting the history, I lost all the plot
I Remembered what’s lost, truly is not.
Before I had battled or picked up this sword 
You grabbed a guitar, and strummed this chord
Our lives are just music, some faster some slow.
Some songs go much higher, and others stay low
When the demons say, listen I need you to stop
they say you’re not ready, that you’re just gonna flop
Don’t linger in shadows, don’t dwell on the pain.
Cause someone much bigger just called you by name.
So rise from the ashes, slaughter the beasts
There’s one massive table that’s set for a feastm

The Perserverance For Peace

Written on the:
(Biblical Calendar) 21st Day of the 10th Month, 5776
(Gregorian Calendar) 31st of December, 2015

Sometimes I wonder,
When will this war of Armageddon end? 

How many lives has this war taken?
And souls growing weary through spiritual battles
Hard to comprehend.

Another year has passed,
Another chapter inscribed
In the book of our lives.

Not a day goes by
Where death, famine and pestilence 
Conquers the world, as the human race slowly dies.

When shall there ever be peace in the world,
Where nations drop their weapons and forsake their greed,
To surrender in trustworthiness and love. 

How long shall the curse destroy us?
And shed one anther's blood. 
Cursed is the ground for our sake;
Past, present future -
We live hopeless days without love.

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