Tag: despair
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July 09, 2008 08:48 AM EDT --
Some people look and some people see
thinking there is joy inside of me
and yet my heart wanders alone
cursed to never find its true home
To the world around me, I may seem . . . more
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October 12, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
Ponderings
I sit in quiet contemplation
of my propensity toward desolation
and my penchant for imposing
my insanity on others.
I wonder why
I can't sit stoically
while tilting on my foundation
as . . . more
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March 02, 2007 08:49 PM EST --
You wallow in the despair of your choosing,
and sit at death's door, waiting for an invitation;
Life holds no promise for you,
for life has let you down.
You feel no hope, for you see no hope; . . . more
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September 20, 2006 10:48 PM EDT --
This night the beings who divert us
For reasons known but to themselves, are gone.
We are abandoned to dark hours
In which we find the truth we said we wanted.
For which we claimed sufficient . . . more
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September 06, 2007 05:15 AM EDT --
Dark night lingers on
Dark night lingers on
Getting darker by every moment
Engulfing every bright spot
Nothing else exists
Dark night lingers on
Moments lie heavy
It . . . more
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November 26, 2007 02:16 PM EST --
After her graduation, Haya was accepted as a student pilot and was soon doing her basic military training at the Air Force Gymnasium at Valhalla, Pretoria. She attended the officer's training course . . . more
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December 26, 2006 01:49 AM EST --
why is it that the light only shines on some of us? I feel as if Im in an abyss of shadows. as much as I try to look beyond-i see nothing, but i feel that life can be so different. it can be joyious and . . . more
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August 14, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
Not too long ago among the pages of my colorful past I was given an opportunity to speak before a group of young, and not so young women. I knew there was going to be in excess of one hundred listeners . . . more
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October 09, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
surrounded by tears
open eyes look to the sun
amidst hope rising
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May 06, 2008 01:33 PM EDT --
Quiet Desperation
She existed in that scary old house for so many years, from a small child until she was eighteen. She lived in quiet despair , waiting to be old enough to get out, once and for . . . more
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May 03, 2007 11:52 AM EDT --
Depression is like the dark,
Cold and having no warmth.
Depression is like rejection,
With no acceptance.
Depression is like despair,
With no faith to grasp.
Depression is like a closed door,
With . . . more
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November 26, 2006 03:39 PM EST --
I have just read a riveting story by Aoiri Obaigbo entitled "When the Truth Came..." <a ref="http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976845463"></a>. The story . . . more
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March 19, 2007 10:22 PM EDT --
How far can you run? How far to the other side of consciousness? Run you must, for to stand still, to take this hit, is death as sure as this pain is life. Up is down, down is up. The . . . more
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October 31, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
one thing is definitely understood; nothing will be the same. living becomes a memory of routine tasks.
you will have days when you think on nothing else but what could have been done, the things . . . more
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May 14, 2008 11:24 PM EDT --
She sat on the wicker chair, the sunlight turned her dark hair to gold, eyes like moonless night; she toyed the spoon in the bowl.
Without words, I watched the puddle of milk on the table. . . . more
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July 20, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
This old bench swing
Takes my blues away;
I come here often
On a sunny day.
I sit in blissful solitude
Watching the ripples on the lake;
This is my favorite thinking place,
And where many . . . more
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August 07, 2006 09:58 AM EDT --
I was very impressed, even depressed, by the responses to Kathryn Esplin-Oleski's recent article about 9/11 and her request that people post about what they were doing on that day. Of course I agree . . . more
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September 11, 2006 10:01 PM EDT --
I bought this print at a garage sale for $5.00. I would stare at it absent- mindedly from my kitchen nook. It traditionally evokes a mood of lonliness and despair.
"Christina's . . . more
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October 26, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
I have been down there,
Down in the darkest of dark
Without a glimmer.
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August 30, 2007 02:46 PM EDT --
Take My Hand
Climbing atop the highest mountain.
My grasp has become loose.
I fall and become lost.
Take my hand.
I will lead you.
I stand in this pit that I dug.
Wander . . . more
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