"Worth Reading?"

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    fighting pain and doubt and depression

    "Worth Reading?"

     “Worth Reading?”

    I want to write something worth reading
    A beautiful work of art
    I’m trying to escape the feeling
    Breaking into my heart
    I need to read the story of my life
    With fuller understanding
    If I’m to conquer strife
    I must learn to read the verbs
    With anything that is handy

    I need to help my brothers
    I need to love my sisters more purely
    To care about all others
    And convince them of my love
    And make happiness my duty

    It’s not that what I need
    Is really that important
    But most surely for one like me
    I must make my love like sand
    With grains of love innumerable

    If I can help someone out
    It would mean so much to me
    It would help me clear my doubts
    And help to set me free

    © Sam Hyde
        08-26-11

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    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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