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The Madcap

(1,298 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2025, 04:20 PM Feb 2025

Desperation

No alternatives
All has been taken
Pulled away by force
Leaving nothing but bones
No flesh, no muscle
Nothing but shattered bones

What do I do now?
When I have nothing but anger
At those who have stolen my life
Destroyed my family
Taken everything away
So they can eat the caviar
Sail upon their yachts
In unholy excess?

I could crawl into a hole
Wither away and die
Without resistance
Without comeuppance
Only anonymous
Like so many others
Destroyed by their superiors
Who live by the creed of greed

Or I could fight back
Along with many others
Searching out the destroyers
To meet the fate of the blade
To be utterly humiliated
Naked
Swinging from the lamp post
Or bloodied at the wall

But that would mean I have become
One of them
One of the animals
A swine at the trough
Ready to feed
On vengeance
Filled with hate
Just like them

What do I do?

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Desperation (Original Post) The Madcap Feb 2025 OP
That's fantastic JMCKUSICK Feb 2025 #1
It's true from afar Waterguy Jul 5 #2
I feel it, desperation NCgayguy Thursday #3
Do a search for one of my older ones... The Madcap Thursday #4

Waterguy

(302 posts)
2. It's true from afar
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 08:29 PM
Jul 5

I don't think I know, seeing things as they are from afar,
the cruelty, the injustice, all the crimes upon good people
for nothing, and the world looks away and nothing stops
this, and I cry.
I AM SO ASHAMED of MY COUNTRY AND THE WORLD
for allowing this CRIME upon good people, children to ever
be.
We must fight this until it ends!!!

NCgayguy

(253 posts)
3. I feel it, desperation
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:27 PM
Thursday

I feel it because of Tommy's stroke and then his terminal pancreatic cancer. The day he died, I died that day too. Desperate to find an existence without him. He recovered nearly 95% after the stroke, which was the worst of the worst stroke. That day I was told to "prepare" myself. He wasn't expected to survive the operation to stop the brain bleed. But he did! My hatred is for cancer that came 5 years later and had no markers to target by radiation and chemo; making it terminal.

You described desperation a little to well, it hurt to read the raw truth.

I hope you will always continue to write. You are so gifted. Maybe one day you will publish. In my opinion, you are in that day, right now.

Thank you as always!
May You Be Healthy, Safe and Happy, and LOVED!
Reis

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