"Stand Up Again"

How flawed are we?

That some of us preach perfection...

By only repeating the definition...

Who is pulling your strings?

Making you dance to a tune you do not want to hear

Stepping to the left...

When you want to go to the right...

Standing in judgment

An invisible tightening to reality

Choking the air with pain

Allowing the voice inside you to silently cry...

All is okay to them...

As long as the puppet follows...

And does not lead...

The energy you keep

Is the energy you put out into this world

The heart does what the mind sometimes does not understand

But know this...

We are who we are

Make the best with peace

We are more than a list of contradictions

It's fact, not fiction

We are existence...

But why do we continue to fall?

To learn how to stand up again

Till we realize we are enough

We are our own person

Good...

With hope and intention

A being living...

Beyond all that has come before this moment

And that which has trespassed against us

To be the best of our ability, not others

The worth is in the trying

And maybe it's not happily-ever-after

But it's happy, after everything else.

© 2020