Eyes open.
Mind wide.
Look beyond,
Seek and find
A path,
A way,
A cause for today.
A reason to live
A motive to give
A care for this life,
A purpose
To strive.
A key to the future
A lock to the past
A reason to run
A flag up the mast.
Those hurts
That lie in the past,
See the future,
Let those memories rest.
Gazing and searching
For reasons for that,
Self-destructive
Coffin and nail;
Dwelling on pain,
A source for relief;
Feel the anguish,
The hurt
Then relinquish the grief.
This life is for living
With purpose
And meaning,
With joy for
The very air we are breathing.
All this, so easy to write,
‘Here’s my hurt, see my pain,
Hear my plight’.
All of us fear
And hurt
And despair
The answers we seek
Do not lie back there
In a world
That is gone
Can’t relive
Be undone.
Shout out,
Seek the help that we need
Cry and
Let our hearts bleed.
Then move to the present,
The here and the now,
Begin a new day
Where past is just that,
Gone not forgotten
But experiences, rotten,
And dwelt on,
Taint the life
That we still have
To live.
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