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--[[User:AndrewM|AndrewM]] 21:09, 23 October 2008 (PDT)
--[[User:AndrewM|AndrewM]] 21:09, 23 October 2008 (PDT)
=Palpitation of the Vigilant Will=
:Foibles, blunders, mistakes, and errors,
:That's all that seems to riddle my path.
:Not a helpful sign anywhere in sight,
:Only thousands of accidents waiting to happen.
:Deftly I navigate across this terrain,
:Forbidding as it is, I make my way anyway.
:Yet even in light of my great dexterity,
:The forces of life overcome me too often.
:I trip over one of these thorny reminders
:That life is, at all times, challenged.
:My descent to the ground renders me shameful,
:And I land face first into the cold mud.
:For that frame, that instant in time,
:I feel a lifetime of grief catch up to me.
:It wrings my heart, it stymies my mind,
:And my tears only make the mud wetter.
:How, how, how can I go on? I argue with myself.
:There is nothing but misery in this life,
:Abject and hopeless, not a single scrupule
:Of it worthy of a Panglossian anointment.
:But, I see, I have come this far already.
:I cannot give up this dangerous journey.
:Despite these struggles that haunt my steps,
:I have come so far, I cannot give up.
:Resolute and proud, I lift my misery
:I lift my body
:I lift my spirits
:I lift my great burden of struggles
:And wrench them off my aching shoulders.
:And as I stand up on my sharp rocky outcropping,
:I cannot help but to smile at what just occurred.
:Instead of being spoonfed the niceties of life,
:I was force-fed all of its nastiest truths.
:Yet, even so, I managed to come out on top,
:Stronger and wiser and happier than ever.
:Thus I continue on with my eternal voyage,
:Slowly inching closer towards inner peace.