Raison D'être

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You spend the day shouting curses,
  But I am not one to fall under so well.
     You try to make me cry,
     But I shall not allow you such
      a privilege of delight.
Sometimes I don't want to sit still and take
      in all of their venomous words,
   droning on and on like a broken record. 
     But my heart cannot bear flying into a 
         rage,
My energy,
wasted on the likes of a person
    of yourself.
You will not sap my soul into
    your dark jaws,
  nor kill me with the sharp knife
       that you hold.
"What is your excuse?"
You ask,
a fervent look in your eyes.
      Raison D'être,
my justification for living,
   my reason for being,
   No one,
not even a ruling figure that you so claim
        to be,
      can and will ever take my life away.

A/N

Raison D'être is a French word meaning "Justification for living, reason for being"
I found it by chance in the dictionary and wrote a poem about it years ago.

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