Give Up Or Hold On? Poem by Samantha Williams

Life can be so complicated,
With its expectations and multiple moods.
There's so much to do, and there's so much to doubt.
It's hard to keep up with the people about.

Some people give up and let go of their life.
While others sit back too reluctant to move.
They've lost all their hope,
They don't realize what's gone.
All they feel is a void from something gone wrong.

I'm reluctant to peer in the mirror over here,
All I'll see is my emptyness and fear from the void.
What to do? What to do? What to do anymore?
It's got to end sometime soon, I've nothing to lose.
Just strife and starvation have settled in one,
Just hate and bad tempers come through in the light.

All I need is some guidance and rules to abound.
Maybe then I can learn the good aspects of life.
If love settled in, then I'd set myself free.
Damnation would leave, and I'd see the true light.