IT'S SAD TO SEE...
people who lost sight

of what life's all about,

people who can't find faith

within themselves anymore,

people who lost purpose

along their way,

people who are blinded

by walls of self preservation,

people who lost the ability

to love a broken world.

"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting" ~ Proverbs

Our time on earth is but for a moment. Everything so temporal.
Yet that 'short temporal moment' can seem like eternity, enough for anyone to completely loose sight of what life is all about.

='(

It hurts so bad.

- -

"Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did do...
Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain -

NOW

IF NOT ME THEN WHO?
IF NOT NOW THEN WHEN?
~ Mikhail Gorbachev ~

run

I laced my Nikes & headed for the tracks.
Wanting to reach my goal & meet the mark.
I stepped on & gasped as the chill of apprehension hits my being.
Seeing the pouring rain beyond this stained glass windows,
I sense doubts hovering as I look upon my carnal limitations.
Yet all I wanted to do is run.

I used to run as my momentary escape from reality.
I'd placed ‘darkness’ at the end of the track & ran away from it.

But as I step on the track today,
I am not running away.
I am not wanting to escape.
I will not yield.
I am running forward.
Running towards what is yet to come.
Training.
Hoping that I’ll be ready for that which lies ahead.
Strong enough to make it count!

°°•.made for more.•°°

Let me spread my wings and fly
For I am caged
Watching the world revolve
Seeing so much more
Reaching out but restrained
Wanting more but inhibited
Desiring something cataclysmic
But restricted by limitations

Spread my wings and fly?
Am I ready?
Do I have what it takes?
Do I even know what that truly means?
I know not how able I am
I know not the way
I know not the destination
But there's got to be more!

" man "

"Every man has his secret sorrows

which the world knows not;

and ofter times we call a man cold

when he is only sad."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~