Strength Greater Still (545 hits)
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Submitted by rick_the_stud (View user info) at 2007-06-29 13:01:15 EDT
He wanted to say it--no, he wanted to scream it. But he couldn't. His lungs burned from the lack of air, his chest pressed upon itself under the crushing weight of words unspoken. At once he could not move, paralyzed by fear, but neither could he stop the unbidden quivering beginning at the very center of his gut, slowly working out toward his extremities like a menacing, unyielding wave. His head began a slow spiral upon itself, as uncomfortable warmth crept backward from his forehead carefully enveloping gray matter as it went.
Between barely managed gasps and arrhythmic flutters and palpitations he realized that he did not have to scream it. He did not even have to say it. There was no victory here, not even hope of a final word or biting retort. There was simply resignation to defeat at the hands of an insurmountable force against which none could stand. The battle had barely begun and already the futility, the hopelessness, was evident. The only peaceable outcome existed as a tallow candle sliding down a nail--firm, deliberate, and final, leaving an irreparable hole in the waxy flesh, painful to imagine but cathartic to initiate. There was nothing more in it but complete and utter surrender without terms, just humility through utter demoralizing decimation.
As the end tirelessly approached he began to lose feeling, feelings. The world turned inward, his gaze turned outward, stoic, distant, vacant. His thoughts crawled and slowed to full stop as the iris of his mind offered the shadowless clarity and brooding instability of a single diamond. In that moment he misunderstood. It was completely asinine, yet completely expected. In one small inaction he hoped to shield both himself and his attacker. But the nobility of his cause and the cause of his distress were one in the same as he could now "not be trusted."
The words burned, screaming in a hoarse voice against the cold steel walls of his mind, dying--no, living--to be released. But what he spoke was neither dying nor living, only another coerced falsity, "I don't know."
He wished to unburden himself of this secret. How much better would this world be if private pains were bared? He did not wish to diminish the courageous struggles of others, but what if the commonest of problems were recognized? Even the staunchest of men grow wearisome of lengthy travails. It takes great strength to fight when the battle rudely inserts itself uninvited into one's reality, but it takes strength greater still to wake up each day and continue tirelessly to lose the war of attrition.
And where is he?! Where the fuck is that man?! Who is the one who respects the courage of the battle-weary guardian standing silent vigil? I can only ask that he let it be me.
User Reviews
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-07-01 20:11:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-06-27 19:21:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
short and sweet, brilliant
you have the gayest name ever
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-06-30 01:56:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-06-29 15:14:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Your username and the content just DID NOT MESH. My brain almost fused. rick the stud? Seriously? No.
Submitted by ajanssen (user info) at 2007-06-29 14:00:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-08-09 18:46:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I still absolutely hate your goddamn name.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-06-29 13:41:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Always a fan of Irony.
Like calling fat people \"tiny\" that shit never gets old.
Submitted by rick_the_stud (user info) at 2007-06-29 13:36:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
it's more of a tongue-in-cheek nickname i was given a while back because of my "charming personality and dashing good looks." think something along the lines of calling the skinniest, nerdiest kid you've ever met "muscles."
Submitted by Badlands (user info) at 2007-06-29 13:22:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This isn't bad. But the dude below is right. I can't believe I'm leaving a positive rating for a guy that refers to himself as "rick the stud"...
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2007-06-29 13:13:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"pretty cool. But you have the gayest username I have seen in a while."
AHAHAHAHAHAH
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-06-29 13:04:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
pretty cool. But you have the gayest username I have seen in a while.
-This coming from \"The_Drake\"-