Ad astra per aspera

Darkened paths twist before me

Stretching out towards sights unseen

Towering trees overshadow

Creating a stifling canopy

That threatens from above

Skeletal branches are poised to snare

If I stray an iota from the passage

Embedded with shards of glass

That leads me onwards

Cautiously I tread around bends

Whimpering and bleeding

Frightful of what I may find

Too traumatized to go back

Alive enough to want to live

Only partially dead enough

To want to truly die

So relentlessly I trudge on

Forging my way in blood

Ad astra per aspera

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Published on Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Filed under: "Abuse" and "Poetry"

From a dark time

Comments on "Ad astra per aspera"

On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, Nimue44 (289) wrote:

Hope overcomes everything, and it's good you didn't forget it, as you say, "this comes from a dark time."
A former member wrote: It is the fight that makes life worth living and death worth dying for. Strength can be found in the strangest of places.
A former member wrote: perfect,wish you no more dark times,
A former member wrote: Wonderful...
A former member wrote: hmm I hope heaven unfurls before you like a wet rose and all the stars and constellations are little drops of silk that shimmer and glisten velvety before you..... nice Latin phrase :) I thought you had a verb disagreement with "leads" but second read showed that the path.... littered with hardships as they tend to be..... was the subject.... well done, Ms. Druidess .... I hope your path becomes increasingly smooth for you, hon.
A former member wrote: i have no idea what "Ad astra per aspera" means but this was a beautiful piece. great imagery with feelings oozing from this. lovely.
On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, DarkDruidess (313) wrote:

It's a Latin phrase that means "to the stars through hardship"....thank you.
A former member wrote: beautiful :)