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Holding On While Letting Go

Poetry

This is a collection of poems I've been writing since September of 2013 about various topics--my life, the world, love, things that are important to me, meaningful to me. What will they mean to you, if anything at all? Will my efforts have been in v...

Perseverance

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by silverlynx216

by silverlynx216

Perseverance

There must be something,

anything, anything at all

that I could do.

Anything, I say,

for there must be a way

for this to pull through,

for this to work.

I know there's something--

there's got to be something.

Something must be done.

I know I have to do

something, anything at all

to help, to make it work.

I know it can,

though I've never succeeded.

The task certainly proves a challenge.

But I know it can.

I know it will.

It may, it might, it must.

I know that it must,

for if not, and I fail,

I'll just start over

and try again and again

until it does.