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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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there are days

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there are days
when i don't want to sing
there are days
when i have nothing to bring
there are days
that just pass by
there are days that keep me

wondering

sitting

wishing

waiting

for sunrise
for more time
for a new day
a clean slate

there are days
when i'm swallowed in pain
there are days
i wish i could start over again
there are days
i wish never came
there are days
when i'm the only one to blame
just the same

there are days
when all is light
see the world
in a brand new sight
there are days
when i can finally see
the joy and the hope
that completely surrounds me

there are days
when only love
from my gracious father
looking down from above
and i smile
and i laugh
almost forgetting how
but it feels good
to be me now

THANK YOU LORD

CSC Mentor Feedback

Submitted by sharonm on September 14, 2008 - 18:05.

I like the general feeling of this poem. I get a happy, final contentedness from this poem. I love your use of line breaks in this poem as well. I think when you separate the lines between the words, wondering, sitting, wishing, and waiting, it really gives more meaning to them. I also like how you have different paragraphs. Even though this isn't a terribly lengthy poem, it gives the reader a break. I notice how you end with thank you Lord, you might want to begin w/ a mentioning of that as well. It's just an idea, but it might be cool to begin with something and then end w/ the same thing.

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