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[sid] => 7818
[catid] => 1
[aid] => Mick
[title] => Undeserving
[time] => 2002-12-02 07:00:00
[hometext] => I actually just started writing the first verse just for the heck of it, then decided to add the second when I was halfway through the first.
[bodytext] => I stumble through this wasteland
Despairing, no hope The need to end it all Suppresses all else Why can't I escape From this hell known as life? Am I here for the amusement Of some cruel, cosmic being? Please let me die I don't care anymore Nothing else matters But that I break free From this pseudo-existence Mired in meaninglessness Still I stagger on Given no relief Forced against my will to live Mind filled to overflowing With burning agony I scream at the sky Why did you put me here? To laugh at my pain? What did I do To deserve such a fate? A beam of light Stabs down through the haze And I lift my lifeless eyes In my corpse-like face Then a breeze smelling Of somewhere beyond Beyond this hellish terrain Bringing images of life And vitality unknown To me thus far Dull eyes blink in wonder What has brought this change? Then arms lift me up I rise from the mire Mind and body whole For the first time Given freedom from pain My feet placed upon rock No more do I stagger Through the mud and the clay Tears of joy spill down From my newly healed eyes And one thought fills My unburdened mind: Undeserving [comments] => 1 [counter] => 170 [topic] => 11 [informant] => Vigilante006 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ChristianPoetry )
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