Personal Battles Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

You will never take from me my hope.
Or a faith I keep within me believed.
You will never take from me my hope.
Or find me moping with emotions in grief.
To see.
Because...
Too many personal battles,
I have had to saddle...
To corrall until they were tamed.
Nameless,
To blame.

Too many personal battles,
I have had to saddle...
To corrall until they were tamed.
Nameless,
To blame.

You will never take from me my hope.
Or a faith I keep within me believed.
You will never take from me my hope.
Or find me moping with emotions in grief.
To see.
Because...
I am not the one to claim my own pain to blame,
On anyone hiding in the shadows.
I am not the one to claim my own pain to blame,
On anyone hiding in the shadows...
To relieve me of reality.

Personal battles fought,
Can not be done...
By someone else who audits.
Personal battles fought,
Have to be settled by the one in the saddle.
Personal battles fought,
Have to be done alone to win.
Or admit the loss.
To get back on that saddle to begin, again.