Literature
I Want to Live Again (Poem)
I Want to Live Again
A Renewed Hope
By J.C. Solis
I was dead inside
Without chance of hope,
As all of these feelings
I had to cope.
I was dead inside
And I could not heal,
As slowly, I thought
My fate was now sealed.
But slow and surely
I then opened up.
It came at the moment
I said enough.
Enough with this feeling
That I had died.
For so long, in soul,
I lived by this lie.
For me to be here,
The old self must go.
That self must perish,
And I must now know,
Just who I still am,
And where my hearts lies.
I could not stay there.
I just had to try.
I now know who I am,
I am now me.
I am who I am,
And destined to be,
A man of good faith
And eternity
A man of good heart
Who strives to be free
I am a now free
From depths of abyss,
Haunted by turmoil,
And by the dark’s kiss.
These feeling inside
Were roiling cysts,
As I fell further
For this deathly bliss.
But I am not there.
For I am now here.
I cherish my life,
And all I hold dear.
I cherish the bonds
That I