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[aid] => mick
[title] => It's Going To Be Okay
[time] => 2014-07-06 21:58:50
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[bodytext] => My mother once told me "It's going to be alright" I tried hard to believe her and sleep through the night What I woke to find The madness still in my mind Surrounded by a nation being led by the blind I recall someone told me "Once you hit bottom, you can only go up" Yet I find new depths everyday at the bottom of a cup Drinking till my memories fade The present blurs from the shade Of the alcoholic cloud that I have made Is this it? Is this the life I was promised to live? I've given all I can till there's no more to give Spread joy to many, yet I held none for myself Sitting alone at home, an empty bottle on the shelf Downing poison, no concern for my health So was my mother correct? Will it all be okay? I'm trying hard to believe but I'm failing poorly one could say I dream of terrors at night only to wake to another day This twisted ride is my life, a tragic Broadway play The end of my suffering is for what I pray [comments] => 1 [counter] => 112 [topic] => 48 [informant] => tundrahydra [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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