Take Your Time

Take your time 

Do not rush 

Moments fine

If you push.

All in stride

Doesn’t hurt

Deep inside

Is our worth.

Manage you 

In your lane

Less miscues

And less pain

Change is good  

As we grow

We’re understood

All will know.

Reaching goals

All laid out

Paying tolls

So devout.

Smile not sad

Trying best

Isn’t bad

Take a rest.

Then look back 

At all done

You’re on track

Life is fun…

-AAA 01/03/2025

See What You’ll Be

See what you see 

Do what you do

Be what you’ll be 

You, through and through.

Give what you give

Share what you like

Best way to live

Your entire life.

Walk where you wish

Go where you want

No upstream fish

Or dilettante.

Learn what you’ll learn

Life is a class 

As the world turns 

Hardships will pass.

Pause and take rest

Perspective gained

You did your best 

Don’t be ashamed.

For endings end

And starts begin

Time is your friend

Someday, you’ll win…

-AAA 12/23/2024

Life Happens 

Life happens when you least expect it

Some are guilty, for they neglect it.

Take each step at its arrival 

It means living versus survival.

Walk don’t run let life meet you

Just let all good karma greet you.

Float gently along the breeze

Don’t miss the beauty and trees. 

Take deep breaths and gently sigh

Full certain life won’t pass you by.

Don’t let past lessons hurt you

Lest your happiness desert you.

Life’s unpredictable there’s no knowing

Just you smile and keep on going.

-AAA 12/22/2024

Acceptance 

Pain comes in life

Second to none in strife

Wrecked like a cut from a knife.

Houses are not always homes 

A creep and crawl inside our tomes 

You  just experience it on your own.

Lack of cause can drive us mad

Thinking and wishing on what we had

Steadily reaching for nothing feels bad 

Circumstances don’t always make us glad…

-AAA 12/12/2024

Lessons In Heartbreak 

Does it hurt? 

Good then it was a lesson.

Did you think? 

Good, you’re using your brain.

Did you cry? 

Good, then you felt something.

Did you die? 

No, good, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

Did you grow? 

Good, each heartbreak makes you more aware what you want in your life.

Did you care? 

Yes, good, being the bigger person isn’t easy, but it is everything.

Do you reflect?

Good, reflection gains perspective.

Do you know yourself? 

Good, consider the journey and hardships.

Did you read this? 

Great, thank you for doing so, have a great day…

-AAA 11/24/2024

Ever Present

When does today become yesterday

When does present become the past

It must be before midnight, I dare say 

Certainly, its finality, will find you fast. 

So cherish each moment 

Before they are all gone

Lest you’ll suffer lament

But we must carry on…

-AAA 11/15/2024

Opening Night, Every Night…

You are the lead actor in your own play

With the trials and tribulations of a day.

The acts unfold in the form of hours 

Time ebbs and falls like petals on flowers.

The costars are many in life’s roles 

Some helpful, while others take tolls.

The sets of life are striking and large 

Universe, the director that’s in charge.

The audience, quite small numbering, one

Experience joy, happiness, misery, or fun.

You draft the script as you live each day 

Mastering many obstacles within your play.

Music, your orchestra, from front to back 

Relieving tense moments with a soundtrack.

No trepidation or fear on opening night 

With your lifetime of chances to get it right…

-AAA 08/31/2024

Change Your Lense

Take the lense and turn it round

Then look back and see its sound.

All The horrors of your past, aren’t so bad

As time has healed you, no longer sad.

They’re all just lessons that bared repeating

To assure, that you won’t be fleeting.

In a happy future that’ll never cease

Living life with endless peace.

Twist that lense and watch it turn

Past flames that will never further burn.

Take it in stride as your life flows higher

Earlier adversity now you’re admired.

Take those lumps that were dealt to you

And the remove them from somebody new.

It kind of makes it all worthwhile

Coming back from times, you couldn’t smile.

Just take it from me I know the score

Though there’s pain in life, there’s a whole lot more…

-AAA 07/09/2024

Eight Simple Lunes to Happiness

1. Tell the truth

Honesty is such a virtue

And a rarity.

2. You are strong

Your journey has been difficult

Yet, you’re here.

3. Just, be, love

In a cynic filled world

You are different.

4. Embrace your weirdness

Go against all the grains

In your nonconformity.

5. Forgive all misdeeds

They are your past and,

Don’t matter today.

6. In the moment

Is how you live, now

With less worry.

7. Trust your instincts

They predict all incoming dangers

So, avoid them.

8. Own your journey

It’s who you are and,

All you’ll be…

-AAA 07/08/2024