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In The Storm

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I will live in spite of you;
    pull my oars one by one,
    water churning the miles gone.
    Squint my eyes,
    suck back my tears -
    Use my metacortex
    to combat these fears
    'cause fuck! biting the bullet -

I will make that bullet my gem.
    Hold tight to my ration,
    my reason,
    my rationality -
    my ship floating in the
    dark sea you left me.
    I spit the salt
    'cause I know these rains -

I will weather this storm.
    Take my dry bones and
    treat them like the sticks they are -
    rubrubrub until they spark;
    Use the fire to light the waves,
    tired of waiting on "break of day" -

I will be my own sun;
    craft my own moon;
    sail past the edge
    of your survival horizon.
    Chart stars you can't dream of,
    reach shores you can't see 'cause,
    coasting in doldrums is blind -

I see through the hardest lesson of all;
    I am never just one.
A poem about living with depression and it's social effects.

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For number 96 of the 100 themes meme. In The Storm.

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