Scribbled Thoughts

Familiar anxieties

crept into dreams

and rattle your security.

Will they ever leave?

Or do you have to

ignore them

harder?

Work through

the physical limitations

and be satisfied

at what you achieved

and the peace

you’ve finally earned.

Absence

of a next step

but still

you’re moving forward,

ready to be happy

and trying

to be better.

New mornings of routine

continue

even when no results

emerge,

keep trying,

just in case

life becomes kinder.

Click together a dream

and float

through the payment,

because it’s worth it

to reach

a little moment

of perfect.

The rhythm

echoes your thoughts,

lyrics reading your soul,

embrace the lesson

and the comfort

others know you

across sound,

and they have carried on.

Hold onto hope

even when

trying

hasn’t accomplished anything.

Stopping

isn’t the answer,

they say,

but they never began,

just watched

your struggles

and judged

you a quitter

and a waste of time.

Paint me

a darker shade

than I used to be

and hide the stains,

the evidence

life has tainted me.

Now I am new again

until you taint me

darker than black.

Bury in white

so the world will stop

and you can stay

to witness

the fresh coat

on the sky

and me

finally trying again.

Reality begins

tiredness challenging motivation,

which one will win?

It’s time

to cement a change.