Sonnet 8

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To ev’ryone whose life has twists and turns
To all whose troubles seem to swallow you
To each who can’t determine what to do
And ev’ry person whom for quiet yearns:

Belay the thoughts that beckon you to scream
O’ercome false wants of giving all up now
Stop spending time on why, and when, and how
And what the cruel world has against your dream

Look up to skies of blue and hear their song!
Listen to soft winds whisp’ring through the trees
See how clouds drift with ease upon the breeze
How winds take leaves and carry them along

And in those moments, pause and breathe and see:
The world can, in a second, make you free.

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Each day brings with it new, uncharted fears
Some ne’er-seen challenge for us to confront
As if the world were ever fighting us
Trying to have us bow before its strength
Trying to make us doubt our own.

 But mind is greater than our flesh and bone
And simple tricks of earth it always sees
And so we seize the day, ignoring earth
And working t’ward the next day, and the next
Never letting earth stop us.

Some Forgotten Night

~This is an old one, but I thought it worth sharing~

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Darkness falls around me
Shadows mock and jeer
I cannot sleep too soundly
With all the noises here

I question what I’m doing
And where I’m meant to go
Which dames I should be wooing
Which seeds to caref’lly sow

And so t’the stars I gaze
With wonder, awe, and spite
In an imbibéd haze
On some forgotten night