Random Poem from forever ago...

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear all evil.

For it is all around me. It surrounds and swallows my will to live.

To keep walking I must lose pieces of my soul. One for every time I look back and dream of the easy way out.

The way that only the weak take... I am not weak.

I am strong. I defeat the ever looming, ever lurking reality.

I keep walking.

Thinking of what I have to walk for. What lies on this path through  

Hell.

I face my demons, I scream for salvation from the damned.

I receive no such releif. Only laughter from the ones bound to protect me.

I keep walking.

My life. My love. My sanity. My existance.

All lie at the end of the road I am destined to walk.

A beautiful face, a loving embrace.

A place to call home. Even if I never go back, I kow that it will always wait.

I need never look for love, for I have found it.

I keep walking.

Tales of my life flow in and out of my mind.

I hear the soft laughter of the ones waiting on the other side of this realm.

It gives me hope to know that I am part of the happiness that resides within them.

I keep walking.

There is so much to do. So much to see...

I scream and fall to my knees from the pain of this chosen path.

It holds me there. Paralyzed in its grasp, I want to give up.

Give in.

Soft coos, the feel of a gentle kiss full of all the love it ever promised and more.

I struggle.

I beat  and tear at the hold on me. Call out to whoever created this abyss.

It cannot hold me down.

I overcome the obstacle, and rise from my knees.

I keep walking.

The end nearing, I grow weary. Thoughts of rest fill my mind.

I start to run.

I will never give up, never surrender.

I will break through the haze of the valley before me.

I will be home.

safe in the arms of the one I gave my heart to, smiled upon by the part of that heart that crawls around outside of me.

I will win.

There is nothing I can't do. Nothing I won't do.

I keep running.

Just as cannot go anymore, I am home. Arms strong and full of love envelope me. Comfort me.

Give me the strength I need to make it through another day.

Nothing will ever hold me back.

I gain my greatest strength from the ones who hold my heart.

They free me from the darkest corners of my mind.

I keep going for them.