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The Worse I Feel, The More I Believe

May 19, 2014
By Dorian Goldman BRONZE, Mount Prospect, Illinois
Dorian Goldman BRONZE, Mount Prospect, Illinois
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Never quit when they say
It’s over
Give up
Never throw in the towel
When the going gets rough
Get tough
Never surrender
Regardless of the pressure
Or the weight you are under,
And never, ever believe
What you see
Looking through a window
Of which only one side
Has been cleaned
Cleaned by the aggravation
Or by consideration
But not by trepidation
To make the window clean
Be it by calmness or by ire
It’s still the same desire
To make the window clean

Never quit when you’ve had enough
When they say that you’ve lost
You’re worthless
Pathetic
A sorry excuse
A waste of space
Because soon that would be repeated
By yourself
To yourself
Soon you will forget yourself
In the torrent of hate you create
In your heart when you desecrate
Your soul with the poison
Of only looking through a window
Of which only one side
Has been cleaned
You can touch the soiled glass
But can’t see the beauty through the web
That you’ve spun yourself
By listening
By quitting
By silently sitting
When you should be standing
Screaming
Fighting and breathing
Fighting for what you believe in
Fighting for yourself
Instead of losing yourself
Looking through a window
Of which only one side
Has been cleaned
Never look through a window
Of which only one side has been cleaned
It only causes hate and pain
Agony and sorrow

Tomorrow
Wipe your side
Of the window clean


The author's comments:
This piece is inspired by a friend who gave me the line "Never believe what you see looking through a window of which only one side has been cleaned." My friend gave me the line at my request, and I tried (and hopefully succeeded) to carry the line's meaning and personal impact in a poem. I hope that the poem conveys to the reader what my friend said the line meant to her: that you control what you see in life.

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