It Takes A Dumping Of Emotional Loads Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Up and down so many roads...
I have traveled.
And up and down so many roads,
I carried but I dumped...
Emotional loads.

I chose then and still do,
Refuse to be beaten.
I chose then and refuse,
To lose.

Sometimes I was discouraged,
To keep my courage rattled.
And my dignity attacked.
But I kept fighting back.

And doubts I don't accept.
Or expect they should affect,
What it is I've got to do.
With my focus on it moving.

I have left so many crying,
About the kind of life they live.
And many whining,
Over mostly nothing.

I have left behind those crying,
About not having luck.
And they can't make their minds up,
To toughen up enough...
From defeat to reach their dreams.

Up and down so many roads...
I have traveled,
With a purpose to reach dreams.
And not be smothered by defeat,
Others keep when they're demeaned.

Up and down so many roads...
It takes a dumping of emotional loads,
To prove to do...
Dreams can come true.
It takes a dumping of emotional loads,
To prove to do...
Dreams can come true.

It takes a dumping of emotional loads,
To prove to do.
It takes a dumping of emotional loads,
To prove to do.
It takes a dumping of emotional loads,
To prove to do...
Dreams can come true.