Battles Within and Battles Without
© August 14, 2009
Richard O. Harris
Battles Within and Battles Without over things causing us fear.
Fear of loss, of being alone, or some fear we may not know.
These battles also rage alongside the needs we hold so dear.
Needs of food, of shelter too, or a love that may never grow.
Yet we continue each day in a somewhat normal pattern
We’re going here and there, or there to finish a preplanned course.
So the battles will not overtake us and we do not learn
What exactly is it we do fear and where is this fear’s source.
Battles Within, Battles Without will sometimes cause someone to do
Many things that person might not wish done to him or her.
I know this because, like you, I fight these battles daily too.
After all these years, when I fear instead I will show anger.
What’s the answer? I do not know. That’s why I am writing this.
Each of us must do our best on our own daily battleground.
I can only share with you, my battles are less hit than miss.
One thing, for me, I know for sure the battles go round and round.
To Live
© July 28, 2009
Richard O Harris
TO LIVE are the two words I claim as my personal credo
To Know as much as I can and knowing learn to grow
To be a better person than the one I was the day before
To feel I have done my best each day and just a little more.
All these abound every moment whether I breath in or out
For with every breath I take there is something to be about
Thoughts about this or actions on that does not seem to matter
As long as to live each day my best is the main thing I am after.
Regardless of what anyone believes will happen after death
All I have for now, is for me to live with every breath
I will do all I can each day to face and defeat my own demons
TO LIVE in such a way that life, for me at least, has some meaning.
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