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A Rough Life

April 22, 2012
By HarleyQuinn16 PLATINUM, Dacatur, Illinois
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"A poet judges not as a judge judges, but as the sun falls around a helpless thing." -Walt Whitman

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A rough life is like drowning in your own tears.You gasp for air. As you gasp your lungs are slowly filled with water...Slowly you lose all hope. You seem dead for a while. Then you wake up and wish you were dead. You need help from everyone. They pity you. So the process again. You gasp, you die, you wake up. But eventually you learn not to gasp and you swim. You swim until you reach land. You swim until,one day, you are finally home. Safe and sound.

© Adam L., Washington, DC

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I wrote this one day in my head as I was staring out the window. Everything had gone wrong that day and I was feeling sorry for myself. My life seemed unimportant at the time. I then realized life can get better if I Stopped feeling sorry and took control.This poem is about finally seeing the light and getting where I wanted to be.
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