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what keeps you going?
i wrote a poem for the monthly poetry challenge for april (it was to write your longest poem). it's called "51. i write too many poems about death" which was 50 reasons why i want to live (in case you want to check it out on my profile for inspiration). i was a suicidal teen, so that's where it comes from for me, but even if you've never wanted to die, i want to know the reasons you want to live - anything from big things to small things
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ARC9 in Stream of Consciousness

To Live...

To live is to find out what that is. You the only one who knows it for whom. There was a time where I lived to give, living for everyone else before myself. I had to learn the hard way. If I kept going nobody have cared if I went to the grave. I forgave, but never forgot the lessons only you can get out of your lack of progression. I lived for myself and my possessions. I'm not sorry for being selfish because because when I wasn't your habits became more hellish. In the end I left it alone. I figured it's better to be gone ... I tried it and I survived the pit. That's when the lesson hit. You're the only one here nobody can see you. If it went through nobody would've knew. Thats when anger came back and said f*** that. This ain't s*** I ain't going out like that. Now at present I live a selfish man with nothing to give.