Fighting Back

Fighting back through depression and job burnout

 

Fighting Back

 

Reaching for hope

Where none exists

I grasp whatever straw I find

Grappling once with unbridled force

I force my way into daylight

Beat back the dark horse

To embrace a new day

Under my feet I stamp

Its ugly head

As it tries once more

To control my very breath

And now day breaks

And into new light

Its head I see slithering away

I chase it, shout my curses to stay

Out of my world

Too much here so grand

I’ll not bow down

To your darkness I swear!

Mock me now death

And I will not sway

For I will stand yet for one more fight!

It will not take me

Into its dark folds

For once I escaped

I have barred is lair

Warnings I plant for all to see

This monstrous creature

So none it may take.

Fight ye now, Fight I say!

Stand up against its ploys

Not its toys should you ever be

Seek more light,

Yes now even more

Burn into the deep dark lair

And once this battle won

Mark ye this field

Post your warnings

Seek the Light!

Never more shall this demon

Mock our day

Nor shall we ever

Fear its night!

 

Reviews

[Tiff-AH!-knee�]

this is wonderful, dont get me wrong.
i just dont particularly like the subject.
its amazing, just not what i was looking for in the contest, sorry :(

[Pookie]

This is a truly nice piece. The way you formated it. The big BOLD Heading was really interesting. There is darkness all through out the poem. Very well written.

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on your great winning poem!

[Princess_ck84]

Very strong!! I love how the protagonist is over coming the "deamons" of depression / death... most poetry do not follow this idea of triumph and succeeding. Thank you for sharing :)

[Reality]

hmm, very powerful poem. This really resonates with truth about the fight to survive saving lives. In the midst of our own troubles, we reach out and fight for lives that aren't even our own, while we battle to defend ourselves in our own life. The fight is always against the "dark horse" your symbolize of the death and depression in this world. But remember there are good forces out there too, higher then ours, and we do our best to fight for others lives and our own.
"But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Mathew 6:23 - New Testament of the Bible
I am praying you will receive God's light in your life because you have a been a light to others in their darkness. All is not lost :)

[Fantasyfairy]

Blackness and depression cover this poem from beginning to end. Such pain and sorrow, and hurt. A dark write and a darker read. XX