by Afeez Adeyemi Adisa
Published on: May 18, 2004
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Type: Poetry

You can close the door,
But you can't shut me out.

You can bang on drums
But you can't drown me out

You can beat me to the ground
But up I will get

You can shout the odds
But it won't hold any threat

You can humiliate me in a crowded room...
You can laugh at the times I'm filled with gloom
You can love it when I crumble to the ground

You can hate it when I don't stay down
You can hold all the power because it's yours to lose
You can use it with the intension to cause pain if you chose

You can dig me out of happiness...
You can try to fill me with bitterness
You can hide inside your lies

You can be unmerciful to my pleading cries!
But what hasn't worked yet probably never will!
So who is the one with the strongest will?

If you haven't destroyed me when you re through...
Then I know I'm the winner and the loser is you!

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