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Calculations to success


 

Calculations to success

            Shackled by deception

            Faced with imprisonment

            Beaten through lectures

            Pelted by armies of white sheets

           

            Armed with a wooden stick

            Broken minded by torment

            Your bones creak and twinge

            Breathing becomes shallow

 

            You slip back into the dark

            Feel the thudding of your heart

            Hear the ticking of the clock

            Counting, estimating, recreating

           

            Outwitting the system

            Yet pressed to your limits

            Welding your bones to steel

            Constructing your mind to be impenetrable, unbreakable

 

            While struck by the shadows

            You rain light of the darkness

            Fill the empty with a soul

            Precluding failures and doubt

 

            Becoming a man of heart

            Strong in mind, body and emotion

            Standing over seas of opportunity

            Determining which path to partake in

 

            Making your calculations to success  

            

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Bazzaro127

Hello! I'm 19 years old. I've grown a lot since a year an a half ago. I still write lots of poems just don't have much time to post them. Its over 600 but who needs count, art isn't limited by number but heart-filled effort lol. I pray everyone is doing well, thank you for those who have read my craft, liked it, commented and took time out of their day to view it. Currently I speak mainly two languages English and spanish while learning french. I'm keeping busy, GOD bless everyone and have a dazzling day. Oh that's me and my mom too in the pic if it even loads haha, feeling fresh;).

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