My Old Poems (2011)

By Your Side #30

I will strive

To be By Your Side

To be alive 

Not in it just for the ride

My feelings

So dark

It made a killing

Left a mark 

Across my face

Blood dripped

Across the place 

As I was whipped

With the cat o' nine tails

I remember being found

The expert hearing many wails

I was stuck there on the ground

Stuck there bleeding

Making no sound

But pleading

To God

To keep me alive

This path I trod

This path I strive

To walk forever

By Your Side

But for now I have a fever

I'm not in it for the ride

You are always right

You are the only one I will follow

You help me fight

I'd rather wallow

In sorrow and pain

Then be lost

In this rain

And Frost

I will strive

To be By Your Side

To be alive 

Not in it just for the ride