To be thankful is to open one’s eyes and see; To really embrace the essence of just being.
The sun comes up and sets daily.
The moon shines beautifully, lighting the nights and sea.
The birds fly and sing with such joy.
And you are able to witness this all and just be, while you open your eyes and see?
You can talk, you can walk, you can breathe; you have the function of your full body…
With nothing else, thanks should pour from your lips. Thanks should speak above your mind’s confusing dips…
Be thankful to exist…
Looking forward to 2022;
Even all the shit that will inevitably persist.
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Take control back…
Pain is never the same.
Some people experience deep pain.
While others more shallow and without emotion.
Some combine the two…
Others release pain by inflicting on others.
Some turn this pain on themselves and keep it bound up.
Regardless of how pain is absorbed and released,
Pain is still pain and colors the world with its inevitable existence.
Red, black, blue, purple, or white,
Pain colors your heart, colors your life.
Despite what you’ve been through,
YOU still control the pallet and brush of life.
So, choose to color your pain with Light.
Originally published with Author House in the book Colors of Pain.
Simply beautiful and I stand awaiting this resurrection of the America of our ideals and not that of the oppressor. We have a long way, but together we can ascend...
yes...The sun has a way of energizing me and reminding me of the beauty of this world as long as I slow down a bit to feel the warmth on my face... Great list of habits.
great question and desire to have...our world says alcoholism is bad and we inherently know it is due to the destruction that comes on the heels of someone being drunk, but in professional settings, we crave it and in respects force it on others to "fit in"...
