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The water didn't get warmer...

I got more bold
and more careless of cold
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I face the pesky problem
and send it to my head

To find the answer hiding
in my heart instead
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In a world of
do you love me?
Be the answer
...yes
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Compared to you
I tried and grew
a niche of my potential

I let you go
and now I grow
in networks exponential
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Know the prize is there

...but don't stare
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Do it

The fastest way around it
…is through it…
dodge the doubt
and just do it

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The experience

Life is not a problem to be solved
or an answer to be shown
but an experience to be felt
and an aching to be known

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Fire

Let the fire of your failure
fuel the furnace of your soul
obliterate what binds you
and alight you to your whole

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Less

The most valuable action to take
might not be something new
yet something your forsake
and something you choose not to do

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Rephrase

With a simple rephrase of a question
You can alter the path of a plan
From the victim approach of “why did…?”
To the hero approach of “how can…?”

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Hero story

Looking back at the loss
While wearing the bruise
Am I victim or hero
…with my actions I choose

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The Feedback

Feedback is a diamond
freshly from the earth
Hard to see the sparkle
in that state
Yet polish off the edges…

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Works of art

I walk through art-filled halls
of what has come before
dreaming of the future
in my heart
Then, I turn and climb the stairs…

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Built upon the losses
of all we tried and failed
The loss turned into learning
and that’s how we prevailed

I’ve made the mistake
and suffered the price
Now let the guilt go
or pay for it twice

Persist through the droughts
Move forward and know
Where dry desert ends
Green grasses grow

Has a book ever stopped you in your tracks and changed the direction of your thoughts thereafter? One mind-changing moment for me came from the book…

Looking back at the loss
While wearing the bruise
Am I victim or hero
…with my actions I choose

Either conform
into what you can see
Or transform
into what you can be

Feedback is a diamond
freshly from the earth
Hard to see the sparkle
in that state
Yet polish off the edges…

Grasping for love
propels it away
Giving with love
attracts it to stay

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