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FROM THE DIARY OF DESPAIR

Life gives me pancakes with no maple syrup
Bread with no jam
A story with no happy ending
A body with no arm

I feel like God mocks me
Created me just for fun
Cause why give me eyes if I can't see?
Why give me legs if I can't run?

You give me puzzles with incomplete pieces
Send me on quests with no end
You watch silently as I get broken
And go even quieter while I mend

I feel like God mocks me
Gave me a hammer with no nail
Cause you knew this would happen, didn't you?
You must have known that I would fail

Destined to run a race with no finish line
Destined to be a candle without a wick
Destined to watch my life fall apart
And all that I built, brick by brick

I feel like God mocks me
So I won't try anymore
Tired of living a life of near misses
A life of neither nor

Destined to chase shadows
Cursed to befriend pain
When the sun sets tomorrow
I'll write this poem, again

Copyright © John Xavier | Year Posted 2025

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Date: 11/10/2025 6:43:00 AM

I really loved what this video said the other day. Think of the wheat and tares parable. Our body and mind likewise with tares or weeds (suffering) as well as wheat. One day God will take away the weeds and we will be whole. Our faith is in Him even when.. The psalms work out that suffering which we all hate and fear. Hope of heaven.

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