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Adversity

Dave Oakes


When the adversity becomes too much
And it looks like it will all fall apart
Is when it’s time to look deep inside
For the place where you can make a start.
Your insides become so twisted with pain
Knowing that you have never been this low before
Twisting always ever tighter until if feel like you will choke
Until the way out has been twisted from your core.
Always deeper into the abyss you must first go
Until you think there is no lower that you can drop
But at the far end of the seemingly endless abyss
Is where you find the answer to make it all stop.
It takes a strong person to follow the path through
Getting harder with each step as you come closer to the end
Almost unbearable at many times along the way
Pushing on although you are afraid you will break instead of bend.
Always onward you push against odds you know you can’t beat
But too stubborn, too tough, or just too mean to give it all up
You push yourself as far as you can possibly go
Those who don’t make it out the other side, lay and whine like a pup.













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