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The Contest
by Budd Nelson → (All Poetry by Budd Nelson)
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Are there rules to this game of life.


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Stumbling aimlessly down corridors
bathed in cold eerie shadows.
Of the too many lost and souless
whom have passed this way before.
I contemplate posterities fate
which follow this path later.

Life is an unbeatable contest
of the seeking and unsought.
A game played by rules yet unwritten
in which all players are lost.
An unrequested journey taken
where only the end is sure.

Love being the only hope granted
to those blessed with its pressence.
An occassionally painfull one
yet the singular true joy.
That mankind is able to attain
on his sojourn after birth

 


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Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on January 28, 2018
I AGREE ADAMANTLY WITH THE THIRD VERSE, 1ST LINE. 'HIS' LOVE IS INDEED OUR ONLY HOPE, FROM HIM FLOWS 'EVERYTHING' ELSE THAT WE NEED TO PRESS-ON ON OUR JOURNEY HOME. AND SOMETHING ELSE... WITH HIM WE ARE 'GUARANTEED' TO WIN THE RACE/CONTEST, BUT IT MUST ALL BEGIN WITH...HIM. WONDERFUL WRITE...ENJOYED. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed on May 21, 2012
You paint quite a picture with your words here! Intriguing!

Love ya!

Jane


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