KEEP GOING!!

poem by: Ann Parks
Written on Nov 27, 2016

NOTE  TO SELF:
KEEP GOING!
no money
no job
keep going
friends few
prospects bleak
keep going
keep going......

Forget suicide
how dare you
think on it!
Remember survivors
starved and brutalised
 whose  beloved families 
 were burnt to ash
you saw the film
of frail ones weeping
kissing a liberators hand
 did they not cope with 
 more than you'll ever know
did they not
 just keep going?

The Grandfather 
your'e so proud of
went through the Great War
the Turkish beaches 
the gas in the trenches
yet lived to old age
kept going.......

No purpose left?
then find one you idiot
you are not ill
just get a grip 
so you can't get a job
but you worked for 30 years plus
so it's not impossible
to find something
keep going!

One day
it will be better
look back
to dark days survived
things always change
keep going
keep going !!

 

Tags: faith, inspirational, encouraging, hope,

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Cecilia Crasto commented:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going...well written words of advice.
Christopher Russon commented:
Life is a struggle.lovely poem.
Edward shields commented:
We all struggle, good poem.
Frank Hornby . commented on Oct 19, 2017 at 8:02pm
So true Ann.....never give up........no surrender!.....really good poem...

 

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