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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2013-07-28 06:40 AM

Back then I traveled with wickedness;
Yes! I conjured up mischief,
Taking into the world mendacity.
I found myself digging my own grave,
To eventually fall into the hole I had dug.
The life I lead made for some pitiful groaning;
Like a man afloat in the ocean
Never learning how to swim.
I faded into the madness of the street,
Days devoured like wisps of smoke,
My bones felt as if they were liquefied,
My heart; withered.
Something inside my being rose up,
Making me aware of things I had not known,
Though I'd heard the undertones of many;
There was real street horror
Everywhere I looked.
People I did not know looked at me with cruel eyes,
Eyes that could kill,
As were my own eyes looking back.
Somewhere, somehow I began to look at myself
As a man,
Not a piece of street scum.
That amazing revelation
Caused me to hunt down my enemies,
They were all inside of me
And more dangerous than any street gangster
I ever knew.
I overwhelmed them,
And did not stop until they were all
Destroyed.
I arose from the ashes.

©July 27, 2013 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ Getting up is the second hardest thing in the morning ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2013-07-28 07:10 AM

Yes you are a Phoenix! Much to the delight of the rest of us here. Always good to see you!

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2013-07-28 07:28 AM

Aww, thank you Lori, it is good to see you this morning.

~*~ Getting up is the second hardest thing in the morning ~*~

Lady Goodman
Member

since 2012-10-04

Posts 193

3 posted 2013-07-28 09:00 AM

then I shall take heart...

Inspiring.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2013-07-28 09:03 AM

Please do, Lady, if I can, after all I have been through, anyone can, and you are included in that group. Thank you for being here.

~*~ Getting up is the second hardest thing in the morning ~*~

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

5 posted 2013-07-28 01:38 PM

you are a testament, both old and new to
being delivered, by the hand of...........

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2013-07-28 01:44 PM

Me Emma. It was I that fought and destroyed what I had wrought. I was the only one capable of doing it, because it was of my making. I appreciated that you left the ending of your comment open for introspection. Thank you.

~*~ Did you hear about the cross eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils? ~*~

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