--- title: In the end... date: 2008-05-18T11:30:18Z modified: 2008-05-18T12:23:42Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/in-the-end/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 203 categories: - Life Poems - Love Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-05-18T12:23:42Z tags: - Life Poems - Love Poems --- i slowly pushed myself upright with nothing else left and only a desperate desire to live again i made one last attempt a final attempt to either win or lose a victory would guarantee me life a loss would mean the end… its a pity it had to come to this eventually gathering my confidence and hope i threw what all i could lay my hands on at this formidable son of darkness the once mighty gods now nowhere to be seen abandoned by lady luck powerless to fight this monster i was fighting a long and hard [battle](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/battle-life.md) driven by my desire to live i watch the pendulum swing i watch it count down to the [end of the day](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/end-of-the-day.md) slowly the clock [ticks my life away](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/as-time-ticks-away.md) strengthened by the inevitable darkness of the night my battle was soon over i could only watch in helplessness as my body was dragged across the battlefield a thousand cuts and bruises no match for what was to happen i watched in horror, as my [heart](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/for-the-woman-who-stole-my-heart.md) was snatched from the chest and crushed under the feet of the powerful lord of darkness i watched as my life slowly ebbed away into oblivion [a life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-life.md) i so desperately wanted now exists only in my memories In the end, my struggle to escape [the darkness](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) (that i was once part) has now ended in failure has now ended in my [death](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/death-to-all-my-friends.md) abandoned, powerless, and [broken hearted](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/broken-hearted.md), alone in this battlefield ( of life) i lost the battle i lost my life