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[aid] => mick
[title] => I Hear You Calling
[time] => 2011-10-05 20:36:36
[hometext] => A man battles his suppressed demons...
[bodytext] => I Hear You Calling What now? I speak or am I just listening. Damn this feeling, this wakefulness. Am I speaking while I write? I do not know. Madness, of a sort as I wrestle this muddiness No clarity just fragmented thought The drink is calling, perhaps I ought Call for help, since into sobriety I’ve bought. It’s easy, they say, but have they all tried it? Damn this feeling, this hopelessness. Is it all worth it, the struggle, constant battling. To be part of the human race, such emptiness I feel but yes it is best. With these cravings I’ll wrest And be better again, I affirm, I attest. Is it night? I don’t know but am wide awake Damn this feeling, this sleeplessness. The cravings subside but that was a close one. I write to fight them with candour and openness. If I keep them at bay I think I just might Earn the jacket, the ticket the God-given right To tell all my peers, myself, that I have found the light. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 104 [topic] => 61 [informant] => aliopterix [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => selfstruggles )
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