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New to writing so glad to get feedback. Please be kind

Another tanka - a structure which includes a haiku followed by a couplet with seven syllables in each line.

a new quote

From the darkest side of life, you’ve dragged me down by the throat And here you are mocking me for not standing my own ground

I always forget how bad it is: the muscle tension, the screaming nerves, the fatigue, the looming nausea: worst of all, those head-aches inner lakes of fire And it is a sort of punishment:

An old Reaver's recolections...

Eight years since I last shead a tear either through pain or through fear, through heart break or sorrow or through joy or angst, I "manned up" as they say not letting emotion give me away,