Broken

This is the eighth month of this burst of self help by poetry. It started as an outlet for my anger with myself for being stupid enough to fall and break three bones last May. The file I kept them in was originally called 'Broken'.... foot, arm, hand and to a hidden extent, spirit. There were 27 'Broken' poems before I came back into the light and started to move on.  I kept the poems going though, and they certainly helped. There are millions of people in the world much worse off than me and some of them are children, with life shortening problems. Life is too short to feel sorry for yourself.

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Out of the Woods 

Into the woods in fates dark sight

A less than easy path to take

Hidden there through fear and fright

Shadows sew a fiendish mistake

The cause and blame are mine outright

Acknowledged and unwelcome keepsake

Doubt careening uncontrolled, finite

What way, what way, what way retake 

Secret emotions held in tight

Slipping behind all standards fake

What ill disease has brought this blight

False impressions outward make

Terror tearing past contrite

In disorientated confidence quake

Lost and helpless lonely plight

What way, what way, what way retake 

Menacing phantom stands in limelight

Is it real this tight coiled snake

Despairing search up in starlight

Or can I from this nightmare wake

Take courage dragging soul to fight

And from the embers fire make

Take strengths firm hold to make all right

What way, this way your path remake 

Summon less feeble spirit bright

Come destiny flooding a smoother lake

Forge back the darkness push back the night

Pull back, the empty reserves forsake

All cowardice  in banishing excite

Responsibility is mine for pity’s sake

Out of the woods and into the light

Pride in this victory is wide awake

 

A River in Egypt 

Slipping from denials comfy space

Turn the tide running a more honest pace

A river in Egypt was a false haven

The cowardly mind must not lay craven

Face facts now

See true how

Good plans not meant to be

Cruel reality then I see