Dare To Live By T. Pina

A poem of hope to those in despair!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dare To Live 

By T. Pina 

 

 

 

 

When life’s troubles got you down,

 And the waters of your daily strife

Makes you feel like you’re going to drown,

 

Try and reach down inside of your soul

And pull out whatever you got left,

And just dare to live.

 

Life is so uncertain and tomorrow is not promised at all.

Some days you might find yourself on top of the highest mountain of life or in the depths of a barren valley with nothing left inside you at all.

 

Believe me, I’ve been both places in my lifetime and it doesn’t take much in life to cause a person to fall.

Life is completely fragile and can be broken by its seams in no time at all 

 

Yet, if it’s one thing I’ve

 Learned in all of life’s mess,

 Is that blessed is a person,

Who can raise themselves,

from all of their destructive strife.

 

Also Blessed are those who dare to live

 And overcome their hellish struggles in life!

 

Dare to live,

Despite the destroying 

Fires of despair burning in your life.

 

Dare to live,

And you will overcome it all.

 

Believe me, if you do you’ll never be the same,

But then after, pass it on as help to others or it all would have been in vain!

 

 So what ever it takes,

What ever the cost,

Just, dare to live!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

Actually this is the first poem I ever wrote years ago when I was in one of my to be or not to be moods! To my amazement I just found it in my archives this morning. Now I am no poet , but this is what the voice of truth told me inside my head after a very tough day!
May it help to light the roads of those in despair!

Reviews

[maktub]

I had to smile as I read all of the comments about it being a 'cliched piece'...funny...there is nothing new under the sun, and yet we still go on about cliche....
From you heart, that is what it was, and if I appreciated nothing else of it (which is not the case, but 'IF' it were), that alone recommends your write.

[TamiViolet]

How I concur with this piece of advice Tim, a philosophy that gets me into sticky situations sometimes...smile. Dare to live! Yes, because that's really we all have for now, right? Daring to raise above destruction and overcome... Thank you!
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[Paza]

Reading this after reading your other piece about the near-suicide really had great impact on me. The first took me down about as low as one can go...this one delivers such a hopeful, positive message. Especially poignant after reading the other! Nice work!

[poetforlife]

Wow, I loved this. I am going through a time of personal turmoil in my life right now and that was very encouraging which is the point, right. I totally agree with all that you say on your page. Maybe you can stop by and read some of my writings sometime. I'd love to know what you think. Good evening!

[WV_Poetess]

This is wonderful advice and I greatly enjoyed the poem. Sometimes daring to live is the toughest job we have.

[Wildfleour]

Congrats on placing in the contest! :)

[Dr. S. D. Blankenship D..]

Wow, my friend wonderful write, I enjoy and respect the work put into this by you. I think you are blessed your self for daring to write soch a powerful, heart felt poem.


Aways and forever your friend The Gothiccowboy

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Good advice and good poem!

Sal

[T]

I really liked:

Dare to live,

Despite the destroying

Fires of despair burning in your life.



Dare to live,

And you will overcome it all.



Believe me, if you do you'll never be the same,

But then after, pass it on as help to others or it all would have been in vain!



So what ever it takes,

What ever the cost,

Just, dare to live!



It was very inspirational...

[Mysteral - Night Prowle..]

Nice poem, very inspiring, and very well written. Could I suggest you remove some of the white space beneath the last line of the poem. Its tedious having to keep paging down to write the review. Probably an error with the WritersCafe text editor. It does the same with me occasionally when pasting text from MS Word.

Thanks for sharing

[Tina]

yes, n I strongly believe in these lines....have always made these beliefs my mantra for pulling myself out of troubled waters. very strongly expressed in this poem..."Dare to live, "...yeah! thats what it should be! thanks for sharing! poems like this feel like a relief when there are too many dark poems around.