Unpredictable Tomorrow

by Lu   Mar 26, 2009


I have been working on this piece for weeks now. The words just wouldn't fall the way I wanted to express them ... until today.

Unpredictable Tomorrow

Sadness, the world within our mind
twists and turns with flaming rage
fear, self-pity, blame and guilt
isolate - spirits in a cage

Fear will scratch the surface
guilt shall consume your soul
blame eventually follows
self pity devours you whole

Empty pages hold the future
unaware what tomorrow brings
yet to feel the beauty of the day
is what gives hope its wings

Drink life from a half-filled cup
swallow with dignity and pride
worth not measured by the exterior
but what lives and grows inside

Surrender to a glorious sunrise
and shadows that may fall between
for even within a droplet of rain
magic and miracles can be seen ...

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"I am not dying of MS .... I'm living with it "
Live in Today ... Tomorrow is unpredictable

* When faced with a chronic illness it can shred your life to pieces. You will face every emotion known. Sadness, anger, rage, fear, guilt, blame and perhaps even self pity.
These emotions will isolate you from the rest of the world. They will zap your energy and steal your will to live.
Until .... you decide they will not control you. There is a beautiful world out there ... and even though it is so hard to see it when you have a chronic illness. You must look deep within and find the strength to fight *

March is Multiple Sclerosis month in the US and May in Canada, Canadians have one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the world with approximately 1,000 new cases of MS diagnosed each year.

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  • 14 years ago

    by Nix

    Whole piece is beautiful. I admire message within your words, its meaningful. Message itself became so powerful, because you at the same time managed to compare, and express, true weight of pain and positivity.
    All in all, I was impressed by creativity and beauty of this poem. I also like the fact that you kept same rhythm through entire poem, instead of forcing your rhymes. Subject seems very difficult for writing, so that gives poem even more power.

    -Sadness, the world within our mind -
    ^Its probably my mistake, but I don't see why in this line you wrote mind instead of -minds-

    Another interesting thing about this one, is that you have described your message within each stanza, and yet they are excellently connected into one picture. Also, you portrayed both side of emotions. I want to say that I am impressed that you've managed to describe anguish and hope, equally, and that gave whole picture a lot of intensity.

    Overall I enjoyed in this poem.

  • 14 years ago

    by LoreNz0

    Strong words from an incredibly strong person. your perspective has not been lost through ur hard times, and ur clearly much braver than manny could hope to b. you are inspirational and i wish you all the best for wht the future holds

    -Lorenzo

  • 14 years ago

    by Rashnique

    Wow i love this poem. my mom has m.s.

  • 14 years ago

    by Nee

    First of all I would like to say that I'm often most in love with closures of the poems, but here..I'm so in love with the first stanza =)

    To drink life from a half-filled cup
    swallow with dignity and pride
    worth not measured by the exterior
    but what lives and grows inside

    You don't know how much this stanza got to me..Luu you've made a wonderful job penning the words here and the image you put..very well done..my fave stanza !!

    Surrender to a glorious sunrise
    and shadows that may fall between
    for even within a droplet of rain
    magic and miracles can be seen ...

    Know what I said in the beginning? yes I'm also in love with your closure here, especially, the last two lines, me and my friends were just discussing the "If we want to accomplish something..we can do it as long as we deeply believe we can !"

    Amazing job my amazing-est Luu ^-^
    Write on

  • 14 years ago

    by The Prince

    I'm glad you didn't force this. It's a chilling write and I admire you for it. Liked the inclusion of the footnote at the end.

    'isolate - spirits in a cage'

    Liked the imagery here. Spirits in a cage gave me a feeling of entrapment. A sad image.

    'To drink life from a half-filled cup'

    Loved the optimism of the 'half filled cup', still - it only being 'half' is quite sad in a way, but contrasted to it being 'half empty'.

    Loved the imagery in the last stanza, it was quite striking, almost. Not going to pick this poem apart in any way but I'm going to nominate it because it's strong and admirable. Well done. :)