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My Soul is Tired

My Soul is Tired
Sometimes the darkness can swallow you whole to where there's no end in sight. The soul struggles and fights praying to be guided to what's right, but the darkness over comes and the soul becomes numb to all the pain and suffering you've witnessed throughout your life. Your soul reads like a novel every page engraved of your struggles. You often re-read those pages to make sense of it all praying the ending will bring fire to your soul. The pain, the suffering, the good and bad had penetrated your soul by all you've had. Your soul can only observe so much suffering before tiredness sets in and there is no light only darkness within. The soul must sleep and write the end of the novel of your life from beginning to end.

Copyright © Anita Conley | Year Posted 2026

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Date: 9/18/2026 1:26:00 AM

A deeply moving free-verse meditation on exhaustion, endurance, and the longing for light. The extended image of the soul as a well-worn novel gives the poem emotional continuity, while the recurring darkness and prayer create a raw, heartfelt atmosphere. The final image of the soul “writing the end” leaves a haunting sense of stillness and release.

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