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Hold Fast

Hold Fast Trapped inside my inner mind I’ve no way answers to find And yet a dream resides Turmoil, fear and all the rest Are present still, but when I jest They all seem to subside For I still have a shred of hope And happiness with its scorned trope. I feel I’m yet alive So I hold fast, I do not yield Using said faith as broken shield My mind tells me: Survive! So you may earn all that you seek And you, in turn shall take a peek Of what it is to live. To have your dream lit like a flame To feel like all that’s in your name Is only yours to give. So I hold fast. In angst and pain And trying to call myself sane As I awa

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Hold Fast

Hold Fast Trapped inside my inner mind I’ve no way answers to find And yet a dream resides Turmoil, fear and all the rest Are present still, but when I jest They all seem to subside For I still have a shred of hope And happiness with its scorned trope. I feel I’m yet alive So I hold fast, I do not yield Using said faith as broken shield My mind tells me: Survive! So you may earn all that you seek And you, in turn shall take a peek Of what it is to live. To have your dream lit like a flame To feel like all that’s in your name Is only yours to give. So I hold fast. In angst and pain And trying to call myself sane As I awa

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Hold Fast by Retaliation21, literature

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Hold Fast

Hold Fast Trapped inside my inner mind I’ve no way answers to find And yet a dream resides Turmoil, fear and all the rest Are present still, but when I jest They all seem to subside For I still have a shred of hope And happiness with its scorned trope. I feel I’m yet alive So I hold fast, I do not yield Using said faith as broken shield My mind tells me: Survive! So you may earn all that you seek And you, in turn shall take a peek Of what it is to live. To have your dream lit like a flame To feel like all that’s in your name Is only yours to give. So I hold fast. In angst and pain And trying to call myself sane As I awa

Poem for my better half by Retaliation21, literature

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Poem for my better half

Anticipation of her. Suspense and anxiousness alike Are filling renewed heart. As if it might just come apart, As through it runs a spike… But not the kind inflicting pain, Or cruel sentimental drought… Instead it burns away all doubt, As earth is cleansed by rain. For she has set my soul alight, As wilds fall prey to fire. Yet, with the help of wax and wire, She mends my broken might. She’s but a beacon in the dark And a safe haven from the harsh Yes! She redeems the fated marsh That is my story arc… She’s of the worthy and the pure And I would want to keep her thus. To turn “me” and “he

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