Poetical Musings

The 4th Step

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No matter how far you’ve gone,
Regardless of how many steps you’ve taken.
One more is monumental.
It is smaller than any of the others but it triggers,
Self doubt, worry, paranoia, panic.
Not the fear of failure but the fear of failing to succeed.

Fortunately success is the only answer, option, and possibility.

What Do You See?

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The sunny disposition of yellow warms the smile.

The red dares you to consider what lays beneath the surface.

Are Red?

or

Are You Yellow?

As you look and look again one of the colors is calling to you.

Will you answer the siren’s call?

Three Lefts

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These lanes only go left.

This light only allows you to turn when it’s green.

The birds do as they please, chirping their laughter at you

As they are free; free to go east or west, free to go north and south, no restrictions can ever be placed.

The birds can not allow it.

Why, why exactly should you?

Predator

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DSCN0487Always there just off in the distance,

Lurking.

Continuing its approach undaunted by outside forces,

Preparing.

Calculating how much effort is needed for success and then doubling it,

Attacking.

Undismayed by its result, entitled to its position,

Savoring,

The victory rightfully theirs.

Perspective, Perspectives

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Is it better to be on the inside or out?

The fog suggests greater warmth within, the sunlights hints of substantial beauty on the periphery.

To have both is impossible, each ruins the promise made by the other.

It is not merely a matter of which path, if only it could be that simple.

You might be surprised to find both can work. Neither is permanent.

Much like your perspective.