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Why Do I Even Try

A personal poem about major struggles

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Why Do I Even Try
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Why

Why do I even try?

This cannot simply be,

I stare at a huge, hairy

C.

Am I really built for this?

Oh God, why?

Am I really built to

Write stories, papers

Poems, essays, like You

May want me to?

Is that even Your Plan for me?

If it 'tis, why do I now

Question and doubt my

Abilities, or if

I'm at all worthy

Of the honorable title,

"Author,"

"Writer,"

"Novelist,"

Or

"Christian."

Am I truly worthy

Of any of these wond'rful things?


Then, what it is that I lack?

Is it that I am too o'erwhelm'd,

Even for my own good,

That I fail to write

As often as I should?

Or is it that I rarely have

The time

For my Bible to crack?

My friends all seem closer to You,

'Tis true,

But they are better writers than I--

Was I then not meant to be?

Please, dear Lord,

Show me.

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