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Suffer

Writer's picture: Clifton DavidClifton David

To live is to suffer,

To experience suffering,

To notice suffering,

Whether within or without.

A dark and twisted world,

The waxing of love, now cold.


Enmity against all,

Derived from some pain.


Regret,

Regret,

REGRET—

MOURNING.


Wake each morning

With a thorn at one's side,

No medicine to cure,

Just a cross to carry.


Lord, may Your sovereignty

Overweight human frailty,

Yet still, we ask for freedom.

Perhaps not freedom we seek,

But a choice, a desire

For life to go well—

Desires awry

Detour the planned course.


God helps? God doesn’t? I DEAL.

Or perhaps all is well.

Each choice the best,

A vigorous tremble of what comes next.


THIS, THAT, THE OTHER—

Cracks to fill,

Human existence, turmoil, debris.

Satiated...saturated...now emptied, extolled.

All toll is told, to toil.

I guess.


Bleak future?

Weak present?

Corrupted past?

Foundations ever present.

Pray God for what?

Not sure...not one is.


All humanity cries,

"PLEASE, GO WELL."

Folly.


Perhaps it is—

A getting used to,

A relaxation, a demonstration,

That passions convulse, throwing a fit.

Learn to curb, deter, and move on.

For what was wanted then

Is not forgotten;

What is now wanted

Will be forgotten.


A never-ending cycle?

Wild-ridden, well-run desire?

A fear unleashed.

A fist...all clenched?


I guess it is, as Kierkegaard says:

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."






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