©Sandra Hillawi 13 February 2011
Do I Struggle or Thrive
November 13, 2011 by mysongsandpoems
Do I struggle or thrive
In this fight to survive
Above or below
Is all that I know
.
Though I breathe and I think
Though I act eat and drink
The pressure bears down
I am nearing to drown
.
But I have a reason
To live through this season
A reason to hope
That helps me to cope
.
There’s no chance of surrender
Though the ocean feels tender
Releasing caressing
Tempting and blessing
.
But while there is light
I continue my fight
One day I’ll prevail
I’ll live through this tale
.
So reaching within
I find strength to swim
And onward I go
Seeking the flow
.
Then one day I find
The tide is behind
My heart becomes light
The end is in sight
.
I touch it and feel
I reached it, its real
Thrills of elation
Oh joyful sensation
.
As I look back I see
It was always in me
This journey was long
But now I am strong
.
I stand here at last
Its all in the past
The struggle is done
And new life has come
On behalf of a friend:
Hi Sandra,
quite a poem!!
And expressing what I have felt like a lot during the last year or so: “nearing to drown”.
And somehow keeping going anyway. Just that for me often there seems to be not much
of “a reason to live through this season, A reason to hope”.
Not so sure why I keep going in spite.
Could be the knowing(?) that “one day I’ll find The tide is behind”…
Anyway…
Thanks. You have touched me here.
D.
On behalf of a colleague:
Thank you for your poem, Sandra, really stunning and very indicative of how many of us are feeling at present.
Hope you are well and take care.
Kind regards S.