Darci13
Will I Matter, Will I Matter At All?
Hated and scorned and rejected by all,
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
Stone after stone, hurled at me daily,
Seeking my flesh to tear greatly,
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
No matter I have sinned and sinned greatly,
What have you done that is more stately,
You seek to tear, kill and destroy me,
No matter who you are and what you are to be,
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
After the last pound of flesh you have extracted,
After you have pummeled, trashed and exacted,
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
When you at last you have won the war,
And put me in the grave of death and pallor,
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
What gain, what pleasure do you now possess?
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
Or will you go on your next victim to destroy?
Will I matter, will I matter at all?
Darci - 11/21/2010
Darci13 - I like your poem, interesting!!! I found a poem similar to yours, check it out.
BTW, What is this "war in words" between you and Angie?
TU
<a href="/users/363/darci13/">@Darci13</a> - Just wanted you to know someone else was thinking on the same lines you were thinking. Let me know you seem it, so I can delete it!!!
Quite taken with your words.
Let me add, that in the eyes of God, you will most definitly matter. In fact, you matter a great deal to God as we speak.
21 Answers
ole hipster
Real heavy references in your poem...hope you don't feel so depressed..hopefually you are just trying to make a point or perhaps you want to hear how the rest of us feel concerning this particulat poem..it's very dark is all I am gonna' say and I trust this is not your personality coming forth!
| 13 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
No not my personality, but I am going through some really hard and bad times in my life is why I wrote it. Thank you for taking the time to read it. Thanks.
Jenn
whovin
matheneyg
cucumber
| 13 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
daren1
on a one to ten scale i'll give it a 100
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Reminds me of the poems in the Bible by Solomon, I think. Everything is useless under the sun, type stuff. I have to give you a B plus, sorry I may have a different grading scale than the rest, I thought it was very cool. Good job, I liked it. okay, okay I'll give you an A.
Headless Man
My best----Randy:
Up in the morning,
try to stand,
Feet are in pain,
give me a hand,
Now I bow my head,
and thank GOD,
for the feet I have,
and the strength to trod,
WE all get old,
and pain is not odd,
but as long as I live,
I’ll stand for GOD.
Every time I have a pain,
i stop and pray,
Lord give me the strength,
for another day,
Because those that are lost,
still need my prayer,
for all my family,
and those that are not heirs,
Amen
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Randy,
That is truly a good awe inspiring poem. I love it wish I could live it right now.......Darci
Darci13
doublehelix
i thought this poem was very good written darci, it's very deep and sad, well i guess that's reality for all of us, hope your doing well, good luck with whatever you want to do in the future, and remember we all got you backed up if you need anything, :]
| 13 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Awww if only you were here in person to sit across a table maybe with a cup of coffee or coke and talk about life.......if only.....thanks......Darci
bigben
Roger Willcoe
Centralian Alien
IamPamela313
WHAT WILL MATTER
by Michael Josephson
used with permission of the author
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten
will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations
and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from
or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter?
How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought
but what you built, not what you got but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success
but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned
but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity,
compassion, courage, or sacrifice
that enriched, empowered or encouraged others
to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence
but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew,
but how many will feel a lasting loss when your gone.
What will matter is not your memories
but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered,
by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.
It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
IluvJesus
As a poem writer myself for 23 years, I thought it was good,very intense but it had a lot of real substance,I enjoyed it.It was straight from the gut.Good work!A+ :)
| 13 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
I have just a few more poems maybe I will share they are written from the heart be it a torn drug through the trashpile heap heart it still comes from the heart and hurt and pain. But even at that I was hoping some would see that it had meaning. thank you. Darci
Papitou
Colleen
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
Sure, no criticism taken.
You know we have a thousand unanswered questions, right? Why are you in 7 month old questions? No criticism intended, just really curious about patrollers and what they are thinking when they target comments from months and months and months ago. *shrugs*
monkey11
| 13 years ago. Rating: 1 | |
chaulk
floormanbb
Thank you Mat and I know that you know that when in the midst of heartache pain and troubles it is very hard to see and remember that, but remember that I must. Thanks. Darci