Now (Poem by Mark Swift)


_______For those who find themselves depressed..._______
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In a world that never pauses,
There’s an ocean that always roars.
In a park that’s always active,
There’s a child that screams.
In a place full of weeping,
A mourner dost mourn.
But despite the sorrow,
A light always shines.
Despite all the noise,
Peace can reside.
Despite all the motion,
There’s plenty of time.
We all have an end,
But the present is our gift.

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  1. Thanks for this. Somehow, it makes me feel a lil better.

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  2. I'm not depressed, so I probably don't get the full scale of this poem, but it's a very beautiful one. It really shines light on beautiful imagines and scenes.
    Oh, wow changing it up. This one is positive, negative, and then positive again. It's a positivity sandwich! XD

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    1. Well, it starts out calm, then it goes negative, then goes positive. All the positivity in this poem, like in my other poems, comes after the negative burst.
      Still, though, it does have a slightly different style than most of my poetry, and I know why; I wrote this for a depressed friend while playing a video game lol

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    2. While playing a video game? That's impressive. Multi-tasking king of the world!

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    3. It wasn't easy; it was a multiplayer "last-person-standing" game, and so every time I died, the game finished soon after and I could only write, like, 2 words at a time XD
      I actually always got the most points, people knew I was good, so they'd hide and wait for me to finish everyone else off, and then defeat me when I was weak :/ Therefore, I only had 1 or 2 of a 10 people server that was alive when I died lol

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    4. Wow. I've never played anything like that (outside of a family snowball fight). That sounds fun. I would undoubtably be the first person to die (at least on my first try) because A) I can't figure out the controls B) I pull a JarJar and trip, then impaling myself C) I just go berserkers and and up walking into a trap.

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    5. Lol A) I figured the controls out easily, they're really simple. B) You fortunately can't trip in this game. C) That's what I do all the time XD
      But, yeah, that explains how I wrote this poem lol. Easy to write depressing poetry when people are stealing your wins in a video game :P

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    6. Then that's my type of game! You are right; what's more depressing then dying over and over?

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    7. Dying over and over when, statistically, you should be the best player in the entire game, and should be able to win a game :P

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    8. Can I tell you why you are really winning? All the other players have decided their goal in life is your downfall. (or at least tell yourself that) XD

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    9. oops. I meant loosing in the first sentence

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    10. I'm really losing because it's "last player standing", which means stats don't count, survival does, and I never survive :P
      But they choose to bring about my downfall because they realized pretty shortly off the bad I'm a great player, even if I'm a new player and I'm level 1

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    11. Wow! I'm guessing level 1 is good... XD

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    12. Lol Not really, it means I have the most basic equipment and next-to-no experience XD

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    13. So it just means you're an average player, but because of the time you've had this game, it means you're pretty good?

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    14. What game is this, Battlefront II?

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    15. Oh, no, lol Battlefront II has team gameplay. This is a game someone made on Roblox. I forget what it's called, tbh...lol

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    16. huh. So is roboblox a hodgepodge between Minecraft and Scratch?

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    17. Not really; it's kinda like Minecraft, but you can use JavaScript coding to change the "laws of physics" or whatever, and it's not even like you'll get near the same experience as Minecraft even by itself. Roblox is more of its own thing. It's a game creation engine, and it allows people with accounts to make games and play others' games

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