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Each step more atrocious than the last.
Slight slopes then a small dip.
It is then when I pause, though only
momentarily to catch my breath.
Steeper and steeper it becomes
small rocks below me, even bigger
boulders ahead.

Darkness thrusts at a golden sky.
It begins to rain, oh! how I cried.
Stabbing penetration!
But the tears wipe away, they always do.

Farther on up the trail, I stop and listen
to a mother and father bird chirp a song
to their offspring.
Hands over ears, it hurts to listen.
I've heard the song over and over and over.
I guess they think it helps though.
A hug would do just fine.

A little further on, a bend in the trail
causes me to stumble.
Falling over the edge, my fingertips grasp
for anything to hold on to.

I'm dangling just an inch above death
and a foot below insanity.
Pulling myself up, Oh so hard!
Deciding to keep moving upward,
just as a huge boulder comes tumbling.
Little did I know, it would be thrown by
the one I loved.

The pain! Crushing, tormenting and cruel.
My body parts all intact, breathing air,
not so bad just a bruise but my hearts still there.
Broken but there!

I can see the top now, oh! so beautiful.
Reaching out, can almost touch the sky.
Engraving my name into soft sand that
once use to be cold, solid rock.
Bend to smell the sweet wild roses,
survivors of the cold harsh days of past.
I am survivor, I am rose

Things get worse before they get better.
There ain't no mountain high enough,
that I can't climb.
Even if someday it is alone!
I will survive.
I am rose ...

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