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HiddenHero
Junior Member
since 2011-11-04
Posts 10
BC, Canada

0 posted 2011-11-05 12:11 PM


The battle wages on inside,
The fight we never win;
Emotion faces Logic,
This great contest deep within.
Each strikes repeatedly, back and forth,
Neither backing down,
Like two wild creatures fighting to the death,
Or two Princes for their father's crown.
They change their forms, their powers too,
But neither ever falls.
They tried to stand together once,
Until they lost it all.
Oh, curse this war inside us all,
When will it ever end?
They live their life as enemies,
Even knowing they'd do better as friends!

The Hero Hidden Within Us All!

© Copyright 2011 Liam Hall - All Rights Reserved
OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
1 posted 2011-11-05 04:24 AM


Oh boy, don't I know this, only too well!

Welcome to Pip!

Owl


Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
2 posted 2011-11-05 04:45 AM


Welcome, dear Liam, to these blue pages of Pip!

You expressed this inner war so very well. We must sustain the heart, for whenever we let the mind win we have to cope with remorses! But then, what happens the other way around? Oh!

Margherita

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
3 posted 2011-11-05 09:21 AM


Much too often this is the case. We have individual wars amongst and people actually wonder why we have real wars, like the blow 'um up and the bombing and killing time. If we can't get along among ourselves how to we expect nations who most of the time don't even speak the language we speak get along?

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways ~*~

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
4 posted 2011-11-05 09:34 AM


Ahh...pros & cons
bitter and sweet...

what a wonderfully
written testimony.

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"The business of the poet...is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things." Thomas Hardy

Michael
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since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666
California
5 posted 2011-11-06 03:31 PM


Oh, heart and mind will never get along me thinks.  Nice work... loved the theme, and the rhyme.   Welcome to Passions.


Michael

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since 1999-07-29
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Louisiana
6 posted 2011-11-06 05:07 PM


I can't get mine to agree... but I enjoyed your poem very much! Welcome to Passions!
JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
7 posted 2011-11-06 05:48 PM


"Even knowing they'd do better as friends!"

Something to look forward to.
Excellent.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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