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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2009-02-15 02:47 AM

What can a day bring in living
When there is no reward in striving
And no response to the giving?

What is left after the leaving of light
Except the darkness of another night
And the effort of the constant fight?
Why do we continue on?

There is a sense of loss of fate
While we just exist and wait
Wondering if we are just too late.

Where is that cloud’s silver lining
Hidden in dark rain beyond finding
While all strings of life come unwinding?
Why do we continue on?

Gloom

turtle
Senior Member

since 2009-01-23

Posts 548
Harbor

1 posted 2009-02-15 03:26 AM

I don't normally post poems in other people's threads, but yours is so close to mine I thought you might enjoy

STRING AND STARDUST

A life is strung with simple string
Atropos simply will complete;
Some fibers burn a mighty sting,
Some lingered stings become discreet.

Some live a life of woe and dread;
In dreaded woe they miss the throng.
Some hoist a sail by slender thread
Lachesis measured just as long.

If Clotho spins the web of life,
Why ponder o'er its spend, or span?
Expend a fate that’s spent in strife,
The end’s as sure by err or plan.

Some lives are tread like trapeze acts
With actions stepped in trepid stride.
A man pines for the life he lacked,
But what he lacked was not applied.

Such things as sure as rain drop's fall,
Will fall as sure as great men's reign.
Are we not stardust one and all,
that all is only wrought in vain?

turtle

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2009-02-16 09:09 PM

Sometimes, we just need to put one foot in front of the other and not worry so much about where it lands.
I enjoyed pondering this one, Professor, as well as 'turtle's' poetic reply.

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

3 posted 2009-02-16 11:23 PM

Sometimes you just have to go on, simply to go on. Enjoyed the poem.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

4 posted 2009-02-16 11:43 PM

because only the morning brings light, even subdued and clouded . . . light

- from a creature of the night

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

5 posted 2009-02-17 02:19 AM

You said what we all think at one time or another, Professor. Something to think about.
Ida

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

6 posted 2009-02-18 02:14 PM

Hello Professor,

It's nice to read something of yours once again!

Good questions in your poem - it makes me think about how amazingly resilient people can be.

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2009-02-18 04:04 PM

Oh, Gloom, the silver lining is there, and diamond dewdrops shining in the sun - and so very much more - but we have to look for it, acknowledge it and be grateful for it, in order to appreciate it fully.

Owl

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