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I'm fighting hard

Elsa Kirsten 1981 (South Africa)

I'm fighting hard

I've worked too hard to go back to the old me...
Sometimes, looking in the mirror... she is all I see.

I'm fighting hard for her, not to creep back at me...
Sometimes a wall is at my back...attack upon attack...

Life is hard, it has no regard for your pain or your feelings of  shame..
It beats you and slanders your name.

I got up and decided, I will never be the same, I gave Him all my pain and all my shame...

The things I once tolerated ...I can't no more
That was for the one I was before...

The past is there, that I can't ignore...
But I'm not going back to who I was before...

About this poem

This poem is a personal poem, born from internal struggles.

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Written on February 27, 2023

Submitted by elsakirsten1981 on April 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X AA AX BB B CC CC
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 609
Words 138
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2
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Elsa Kirsten

My Name is Elsa Kirsten, I am 41 years old. I am married and have 3 children. I live in South Africa. I am passionate about languages. I am busy completing my teaching degree, while employed at a private Christian School. I love to write poetry from a very young age, the passion only recently came to the surface again. more…

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