Life's Epic Battle (Posted here by request)

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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

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0 posted 1999-09-22 11:15 PM

LIFE'S EPIC BATTLE
(For Anyone Who Has Ever Suffered Depression)

With crystal clear alacrity,
I wake to the onrush of self pity.
Gathering gumption, I stand to fight,
All the strength of a porcelain knight.

Grasping the lance of frail truth,
Fragmented dreams of distraught youth.
Donning the shield of denial,
A helmet with a painted smile.

Bearing, proud, the breastplate of shame.
I willfully mount the steed, untame;
Holding high, for all to see, the crest
Of broken dreams clung to in jest.

Gallantly, I charge into the joust
On hope, so easy and often doused;
Braving the onslaught of sorrow,
Prestigiously gaining tomorrow.

Carrying home a prize that none would share,
Over the battlefields of despair.
To celebrate, alone, in toast and feast
(If but for today), a conquered beast.

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Michael Anderson

And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
But dreams - of those who dream as I,
Aspiringly, are damned, and die:

EAP

DreamEvil
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since 1999-06-22

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1 posted 1999-09-22 11:24 PM

Righteously worded and wondrously wise, my friend. Perhaps those reading it will get a taste of our daily battle with this beast.

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Now and forever my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

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2 posted 1999-09-22 11:37 PM

Wow....I am speachless

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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints in our heart and we are never ever the same.

Thank you all for leaving footprints!!

Christopher

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3 posted 1999-09-22 11:51 PM

I too am well aquainted with the beast of which you speak, I wish to thank you Michael for expressing so well the feelings of a saddened soul.
Every feeling in entirety, I have felt.
Michael, you have just drawn a picture from my soul.

WhtDove
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since 1999-07-22

Posts 9245
Illinois

4 posted 1999-09-23 09:37 AM

Michael you described it well. "All the strength of a porcelain knight" Describes all too well how we feel! So fragile! I am glad you reposted this. I didn't see it the first time!

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

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California

5 posted 1999-09-23 04:06 PM

hoot_owl, thank you, I'm glad you liked the poem.

Dream, Christopher, & WhtDove, I know and understand your daily pains. You have all helped me in my battle, I hope in some way I have helped yours.

Michael

Andrew Scott
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since 1999-06-24

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6 posted 1999-09-23 07:02 PM

Never personally have I had to battle this beast but your words were powerful and true to this untested one. Excellent writing! Very stong imagery! Top Shelf Material. Thank you very much for sharing.

caroline
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7 posted 1999-09-23 07:19 PM

Thank you for this poem Michael. I, too, have suffered this plague...it has now returned with a vengeance, after nearly twenty years of thinking myself free from it. I will cling to these lines of your compassionate and understanding poem.

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The only man worth your tears will never make you cry...

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