Tag: grace

Take Your Time

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Take your time 

Do not rush 

Moments fine

If you push.

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All in stride

Doesn’t hurt

Deep inside

Is our worth.

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Manage you 

In your lane

Less miscues

And less pain

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Change is good  

As we grow

We’re understood

All will know.

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Reaching goals

All laid out

Paying tolls

So devout.

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Smile not sad

Trying best

Isn’t bad

Take a rest.

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Then look back 

At all done

You’re on track

Life is fun…

-AAA 01/03/2025

Unconditional Happiness

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Don’t get even, live your life

Past is a closed square 

Whether ex husband or wife

No need to go there.

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Feel the peace of the present

Enjoy all that’s now

Looking back causes resent

Make today your vow.

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Go outside, start a nice walk

Stretch your arms and legs

Stop negative talk

Its depression begs.

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Notice the flowers and trees

Beauty everywhere

Feel a warm spring breeze 

Nothing else compares.

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Remember you are alive 

As air fills your lungs

With nothing contrived

Sweetest songs are sung.

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So take pause, don’t overthink

Feel your happiness 

Life passes, don’t overthink

Moments don’t digress….

-AAA 01/02/2025

Emotional Drum

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I was a drum

So they beat me

I was left numb 

They besieged me.

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No cymbals or set

One single drum

Filled with regret

For loving some.

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The beat moves on

Just like our lives 

The past is gone

Like some ex wives.

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I hold the sticks

Once handed out

No more cheap kicks

Boundaries about.

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A drumming snare

With sticks of oak

Much more aware

Of all that’s spoke.

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My head is tuned

The snares are right

Sadness consumed

Future looks bright…

-AAA 12/13/2024

Saturday Random Contemplations

Anthony14 Comments

In this consciousness we call life,

we have all been baptized in fire of adversity.

How we come out the other side is all that matters.

No need to dwell on the terrible things that happened, those just tested our mettle.

Try to remember that, when you’re overthinking like I do.

Find a peaceful way to integrate your past as a part of your life and series of lessons.

Some light and simple others quite cathartic.

Be present, be now, enjoy what’s in front of you.

Not what’s behind you or ahead of you…

-AAA 10/19/2024

Fun At Last Paid for in my Past

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Originally Published 04/29/2024

I have been to hell and back

Upon the most treacherous course

My life and memories in a virtual knapsack

Navigating my life, post divorce

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I don’t know where I go next

But I know it’s going to be fun

My past days of being hexed

Are all finished and truly done

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Endless adventures await my life

I’m enjoying the unknown of each day

Over are all my days of strife

And now it’s time to enjoy and play

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Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed

So each our lives, we must not waste

For the hazards of our pasts we all must heed

To thrive inside our happy place

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Endless days and laughing times

I look forward to enjoy

Sharing experiences with friends of mine

With hard learned lessons, I employ

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Who knows next which way I go

Not even I can answer

But I’m enjoying the ebb and flow

Just like that of the dancer…

-aaa

Fun At Last Paid for in my Past

Anthony8 Comments

I have been to hell and back

Upon the most treacherous course

My life and memories in a virtual knapsack

Navigating my life, post divorce

–

I don’t know where I go next

But I know it’s going to be fun

My past days of being hexed

Are all finished and truly done

–

Endless adventures await my life

I’m enjoying the unknown of each day

Over are all my days of strife

And now it’s time to enjoy and play

–

Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed

So each our lives, we must not waste

For the hazards of our pasts we all must heed

To thrive inside our happy place

–

Endless days and laughing times

I look forward to enjoy

Sharing experiences with friends of mine

With hard learned lessons, I employ

–

Who knows next which way I go

Not even I can answer

But I’m enjoying the ebb and flow

Just like that of the dancer…

-aaa

The End of the Beginning

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You put in your best and it didn’t work out

That’s what life can be about

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Loved very hard but you lost

Pondering if was worth cost

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The Love you gave, and all its good

Didn’t turn out the way it should

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Sleepless nights and endless tears

Trying to allay your deepest fears

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Wondering what tomorrow brings

The iciest winter or warmest of springs

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Look deep inside for signs of hope

On how to deal or how to cope

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Then there it is a small sign at first

A hint of confidence then a burst

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Remember who you used to be

Before your lesson’s history

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Finding glimmers of light inside your soul

That flourished before you lost your goal

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Buried away at every measure

About to recover the greatest treasure

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Creative weirdness, music, and art

All your essence from the very start

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Concerts friends and moments of peace

Bring what was chaos back to ease

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Now you’re fully you my friend

And all your pain will come to an end

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Always hit the gym and hit it hard

Venture outside your own backyard

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Embrace change from all directions

And enjoy new found introspections

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Don’t stress twisted time and endless sands

Your life is where it belongs, in your own hands

-aaa

eriF

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We have fire imparted in the depths of our soul that refuses to go out.

Powerful and persistent it’s fed by our hearts and unique love that shaped us.

Its presence leaves us with a soft blanket of reassurance like a mother’s hug.

The drive we have when facing the utmost of challenges comes from there.

That last ounce of energy we beg for to defy the impossible comes from there.

Moments where we are stretched to the edge of our frail minds and bodies it’s there.

The sadness when our hearts break and throughout our rebuilds, it’s there.

All triumphs and tragedies it shares the heaviest burdens never fading out for even a moment.

Sparking the best in us and pushing us to want better for ourselves and those around us.

Share that fire, spark the flame in others and watch their eyes change forever.

Know you’re miniaturized starlight never dimming despite the darkness.

No matter the lesson, look inside, and see the burning flame beckoning you onward forward…

-aaa

Actualization

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Self can only be achieved by acceptance

Acceptance can only be achieved through peace

Peace can only achieved through love

Love can only be achieved through trust

Trust can only be achieved through honesty

Honesty can only be achieved through bravery

Bravery can only be achieved through knowing

Knowing can only be achieved through knowledge

Knowledge can not not be achieved through mistakes

Mistakes can only be achieved through learning

Learning can only be achieved through bettering

Bettering can only be through improvement

Improvement never ends until we do and even then it continues on…

-aaa