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RISE ABOVE
My rival lays in the river
My concern and doubt lays in the rocks nearby
They say I’m insane
they say what I did was injustice
what I did was not cruel or inhuman
But there was a horde of them
A horde of monstrous beasts
I refused to let them separate me
From my knowledge
I had the spirit to be fearless
I had the longing
I had the longing to arise
to climb to the top of the mountain
they say it is forbidden
Because people like us
should not roam that far from the black gates
Unless we see the gold that shines like the sun in the sky
but brighter
It was scarce for someone like me to arise
My kind of people run and hide from the freedom
from the free will of the warriors
Many say to us
Will those who dare to walk into the town full of darkness
That rising is not like the sinful taste of snug and compact pain and fear
Like we thought
But it tastes
like the sorcery magic
like freedom and glory more than that
But we could not be told to stop and drop what we were doing
what we were doing to do something they told us
we should not
we obeyed them
the soothing touch of familiarity left behind
I made a special decision
Once the lights of the sun shined through my gates
I run
I run over the unit of doubt
the unit of fear
I run over the unit of lies
I run from the stressful life of mine
From the strict voices
from the strong
the fearful beasts
people called them the supreme fear
the one beast that held me back
Now I see they were wrong
the voices were wrong
the brightness did not matter
I was tired of the fear
Now I see I won
as I glance over the edge of the mountain viewing the black gates
and the people who did not know what they would be missing
I see the world lite up in gold
In light
and it is the sun
I won the battle
the battle of fear
and of doubt
now you see i have free will
The free will to be me
I have won your honor
I have won my will back
So do what you will
I have but one plea
A plea that one day all those who want to conquer
Let them conquer
Like those before them
they shall be the ones that make the world brighter
and they will remember those
who have conquered before them
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this is a poem I made. when I thought there was nothing in this world I could conquer. so I made this so that anyone who thought they couldn't do anything. that just maybe it could inspire them.