When Feeling Sorry For Yourself Is No Longer An Option

Go ahead
Feel sorry for yourself.
Keep pointing fingers
Keep putting blame on technology for your creative block.
On your parents for not reading you The Little Prince earlier
keep on escaping your weaknesses
Onto a well of a grander weakness you will fall
The well of waiting
waiting
waiting
waiting
waiting
waiting for an undeserved love
for an unearned success
for an undisciplined talent
and to your surprise
to your misfortune
you start grasping for air
sweating
getting thirsty for what you left behind
hungry for what could have been
for what you could`ve made
Don`t be a fool
when a miracle is about to happen
no one`s gonna send you a notification
you have to be there already
out already
present and standing tall
with a camera hanging on your chest
ready to take the shot
ready to make this moment last a while
last an eternity
and when everyone`s clapping and admiring the miracle
you elbow your neighbour witnesser and whisper with a gleaming smile:
`I contributed to the making of that`.
Humbly.
Pridely.
Gratefully dreading where could you be now if you didn`t exit the waiting room
on that wild raining night
when you dauntlessly defied your demons
when you decided that talented and worthy of love you are
that you don`t need to be big to do big things
to contribute to big things
that you`re just a little spec in a mindblowing universe
a curious, ambitious and stubborn spec at that
curious of how far you can go
ambitious to follow that curiosity `til the end
stubborn to never again take the waiting room as an option
You just do it.