"Into the Light"

 

Allow the moments to settle...

Sort through the valuable and release all that is less desired...

Your gut instinct is not a liar, it's caution raised for a reason...

Process through the feelings and emotions

Stop romanticizing the pain...

This is not the only thing you deserve

Validate the real...

Never dismiss your intuition

If its out of your hands, then it should be released from your mind as well

There is no golden rule of absolute...

That you must take your past pain and make it into something beautiful

You are no lesser of a person if you can't...

Sometimes awful things happen and there is no desirable appeal within the debris

And you have no responsibility to carry that weight of rubble with you

You cannot hate yourself into a version of yourself that you can love...

Nothing occurs within us automatically

A decision has to be made to give it the permission to happen

One page within our story does not define the entire chapter

There is so much more to the story rather than the paragraph that you are currently stuck upon

Action is the root of growth when change comes to be

Perspective can and will be altered

The line of sight becomes bigger...

The mind steps back, looking at the entire picture ahead

Acknowledge the power and the gravity of choice

There is no denying the hardship faced and the difficulty of it all

Compassion dreads the execution of it all...

Because its the final choice of change

There is no returning to yesterday...

And today cannot be lived in experience by avoiding it

We are all merely moments of existence

Living within the day given...

Like the sun, we are a ray of light breaking out from the darkness at dawn

To embrace the strength we need to honour ourselves...

By granting the allowance to begin again.

© 2024

"Time in Life"

 

Life creates character...

It builds it...

Tests it...

Breaks it...

And reveals it...

Because there comes a time in life when we reach a crossroads

When we are about to give up upon everything...

When the battle drains our strength

And we begin to crumble under the pressure of it all

It becomes so easy to forget so many things when we struggle

Self-care...

Self-worth...

And self-love...

Whether we are ready or not

We are reminded everyday that life moves on

Regardless if we choose to take a chance

Or remain buried within the past...

But what we truly fail to realize is this one thing

That who we were, who we are, and who we have yet to become...

Are three different people

Similarities will carry through, but we are change always

We are life in constant motion

Its evolution of emotion

Learning, loving, and creating...

The end of everything can be the beginning of something

Remember the simple things that keep your being held within your heart of your soul

Where the base, the root, and the core of you comes to be

Believe in the existence of life beyond yesterday

Alter the perspective in view

Because if we spend all of our time thinking about the before and after...

We will miss out on the here and now right in front of us.

© 2024

"Refuse Yesterday"

 

A corner turned...

Eyes forward...

Direction in never backwards...

The view becomes different when you allow yourself to choose

There is always another beginning after an end

Following the natural order of existence, life is given from the old

To see light, we must come from darkness

Power is achieved from knowledge

Refuse to let history dictate destiny

Our ability to learn from our experiences is the difference

It allows the course of change to take effect

And before the truth sets you free...

You must understand and realize which lie is holding you back as a hostage...

We abandon ourselves every time we say “yes” when we wished to say “no”

We always wait too long to make the choice, and it ends up choosing for us...

It's always the wonder that is questioned

How honesty can bring out the worst in others

Authenticity seems to provoke anger within closed minds

Because when there is proof of more, there are those who have to deem it less

All because their mind is stuck within a mental prison of fear

This is why they refuse to grow beyond yesterday

They cannot hear a difference without being offended

But different does not mean bad...

It just means not the same as another, and that is okay...

Normalize being original and true

We are everything and more than what is seen by another...

Surrender the heavy weight of those things not worthy of your strength

Have a new hope born...

Forgive yourself for things you did when you did not know better and when you were trying to survive

Realize how bravery can be masked as fear

Because destruction always seems to come with so much noise

While a seed will sprout and begin creation in silence

So maybe this is how we will heal from what quietly broke us.

© 2024

"Change the Narrative"

 

There is meaning behind everything...

Interpretation is key...

A choice in perspective...

Reality always bares truth...

The reason why some facts don't change a persons mind

Is because most people don't use facts to form their opinions

They use their opinions to form their version of “facts...”

But there is no hard rule stating that good moments can't happen on bad days

It's what you choose to see

The lessons learned come from daily living

And it is not about the mistakes we make

We all make them...

The difference comes after

How we change the narrative

And grow beyond that version of ourselves who misunderstood what we were faced

Recovering our footing from when we stumbled

We now stand at the ready

Strength in hand...

It's a difficult truth to face

It becomes the hard action taken

Followed by a hard breath swallowed in acknowledgment

That we to must own the role we once played

To stop pouring our depth into those who are shallow

So we stop becoming the puddle of tears upon the floor

Because how many scars do we end up justifying?

When the deepest cuts were caused by a being we embraced while they held onto the knife...

Regret is an unfortunate time machine that returns us to the past

When every ounce of us should be present

Today is forward motion from every yesterday

Never assume that loud is strong, or quiet is weak...

Because that is the irony...

The broken parts of people, were not caused by being fragile...

© 2024