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I Won't Back Down
Despite the hate, despite the lies
The perpetrators still deny
Despite all the personal threats
"Don't Mess Me!" they're very best
Despite their caring, forgiving disguise
The mask is slipping, I see the whites of their eyes
Despite a deliberate character assassination
Pointing and laughing at multiple amputations
Despite an encouragement to commit suicide
"Just Do It!" - I won't, I will no longer hide
Despite veiled insults and the recruiting of haters
To watch a broken man falter, they're all fuckin waiters
accused as Nigel, Narcissist, Schitzophrenic, Cripple
Despite accusations of an Alcoholic to fond of his tipple
Despite false accusation to get me demoted
The cabal agrees, they've all just voted
A malign, so benign as a victim of the crime
I will stand up now and deal with the slime
My armour solid, my Claymore like a razor
I aim my strikes like I'm guided by a laser
The cabal will lose itself in the lost and found
My oath and determination "I Won't Back Down!"
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Inspired by anger and rage created by others
I stand with the victims my sisters an brothers
Published 21st Jun 2019
Author's Note
The last in this series of Fight Poems
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21st Jun 2019 6:43am
22nd Jun 2019 6:55am
LOL - None of us should back down in the face of adversity personal responsibility is power :-))))))))
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21st Jun 2019 8:38am
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22nd Jun 2019 6:51am
I have made such a pact with myself, I am now a becoming, no longer half a man, standing tall "I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore." (Fron the movie "Network")
thank you for the wise words and the RL add It means a lot :-))))
thank you for the wise words and the RL add It means a lot :-))))
Anonymous
21st Jun 2019 1:55pm
Too many good are now gone because nobody would stand with them. People will be people & we all have our flaws. But as Melia said above, bright can come from darkness. You lit the torch...now let's watch it spread!
Fierce warrior{ess} hugs for you, my friend!!! :-)
Fierce warrior{ess} hugs for you, my friend!!! :-)
22nd Jun 2019 6:47am
A kilted warrior stands on the edge of a cliff, he had been there before and they said jump. But now I stand on the edge and my battle cry makes the incoming tide retreat. So it is written so it is done!
(((((((((( Fierce Hugs ))))))))))
(((((((((( Fierce Hugs ))))))))))
21st Jun 2019 6:59pm
Gotta tell it like it is, my friend...
we don't accept their insults
One person's power is offset by another's instincts...
Mother makes sure that we're balanced in the end...Ely
we don't accept their insults
One person's power is offset by another's instincts...
Mother makes sure that we're balanced in the end...Ely
22nd Jun 2019 6:44am
Flee only when it allows you to flank them...
then take them down at the knees... please...Ely
then take them down at the knees... please...Ely
21st Jun 2019 9:49pm
"I Won't Back Down!"
... just curious - was it inspired by the Johnny Cash song? { https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i5NLyXZdc }
Either way, anger emerges when one's boundaries are overstepped - and is a good energy to re-establish them.
... just curious - was it inspired by the Johnny Cash song? { https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i5NLyXZdc }
Either way, anger emerges when one's boundaries are overstepped - and is a good energy to re-establish them.
22nd Jun 2019 6:43am
He shoots he scores,................ I had that song ringing in my ears while I wrote this - the Tom Petty version had it playing throughout the write. this half the inspiration for the poem the other was my constructive rage being channelled at injustice and my fight back encouraged by Jordan Pettersen. I was lost for such a long while, but I am getting my Mojo back. I had a career of 19 years fighting for the downtrodden and the weak, it is time. History will repeat itself
22nd Jun 2019 1:49pm
That's quite a journey: onward and upward is the only way - we need goals and something to strive for - and now I shall check out the Tom Petty version.
25th Jun 2019 10:20pm
Well done David. We all are only as strong as are words. With all my respect. You've got this✌
21st Jul 2019 11:01am
