You’re on it again; struggling to swim against the raging currents swirling from deep within you. You’re already on the verge of giving in; already on the brink of allowing the tides to fully take the reigns of control from you. But what will that make you? You wondered.
Would you stop fighting and just allow yourself to float senselessly, not knowing where you’ll going to end up? Or, will you keep on struggling until you can no longer force yourself to do so? Your mind says no, but your body is saying otherwise.
That ‘tension of opposites‘ dispels another wave of overwhelming grief… for reasons so obvious words are no longer needed to magnify its meaning. A joyless mirth suddenly burst out from your lips. That said it all. You knew… and you understood it well.
It’s only a matter of time now. And while waiting, you surrounded yourself with silence.
In life, winning is one thing, surviving is another…
©2012leofinajangalleta
5/29/2012 23:56:06
(lifted from the pages of my ‘personal notes’… will continue whenever I can.)
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