YOU are all that YOU have, this is YOUR life, and YOU only have one!
When all is said and done, after all, (everything & everyone) has come and left, through whatever in’s or out’s that YOU experience(d), the only certainty that YOU always have is YOU and the only time that YOU always have is the “now” that is available to YOU at a given moment. YOU have to want, YOU have to get, YOU have to go, YOU have to do; YOU have to, FOR YOU!
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YOUR take on life (perspective) is dependent upon how deliberately and effectively YOU take on living (position) out YOUR take of the realities and responsibilities (purpose) that take YOU to where YOU desire or are destined to be. If YOU need time, take it, if YOU see an opportunity to seize time, take it. That YOU “take it” will always be more significant than what YOU are given if YOU take it seriously; There is always “chance”, TAKE IT!
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What “hurts” YOU will not always harm YOU and nor will what harms YOU always “hurt”.
Living to and by the “rules” or “regulars” of life will sometimes distort YOUR perspectives and destroy YOUR potential because of YOUR dependence on the “idea” or “impression” that life or its lessons inevitably teach; LIVE for YOURSELF in order to decide for YOURSELF what is good, bad, right, wrong, or “best” for YOU, for YOURSELF!
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I want to hear about and see you free,
I want to witness you experience new things,
I want to see you breathe,
leaving everything that chokes you behind and going forward to find…
an air that coats you in the new of how and thus coaxes you to plow head first into the distinct possibilities of now…
I want you to leave,
run away from the former things and maybe just for a second remember me,
right before you breathe,
right before you see things differently,
I want you to close your eyes
and be able to see,
so that you realize that nothing about who we are is typically,
but keeping your eyes closed
I want you to jump,
from memory,
and land in the spot that has long avoided your desires,
mentally,
and before you open them
I want you to reach,
spiritually,
and feel the strength of my words, lyrically…
Then I want you to breathe, literally,
say with your existence
those things you once resisted,
and know that I may not speak of the spot you left in my life, but I’ve kissed it,
frequently,
hoping to cover the fact
that I wanted you to go,
and I didn’t see it all the time,
but I’ve witnessed it,
I needed you to show me how close we were,
through distances…
And now I get it,
fresh air,
well instances,
for instance, that’s what this is.
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©2013 Cornelious “See” Flowers
Because YOU have made YOUR personal preferences priority does not mean that people will have pride in, participate or promote YOUR platform or product in order to position YOU into or for a bigger or better purpose; YOU have to pull YOU up, push YOU forward and put YOU in a place that produces the power that comes with being YOUR own person. Only YOU can travel certain paths, sometimes its just going to be YOU in the parade.
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Just because there is “room” for YOU does not mean that YOU are a great fit. Comfort and/or circumstance often compliment the convenience of our “cycles” and allow our coping mechanisms to allow routine and/or mediocrity to continue paces and paths that are ultimately unhealthy or otherwise unnecessary. Sometimes the “best” place for YOU is in a different place other than where YOU find YOURSELF now; SET YOU FREE!
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With so many “distractions” in YOUR life it may be hard for YOU to make a “distinction” of what urge, voice, instruction, feeling, or thought to hear/follow. YOUR inner voice is drowned out by the outer body experiences and influences that are YOUR situations, surroundings, and “stuff” around YOU; It is time to silence the “critics” and the (if any) confusion by turning off the noise(s) of temptation and tradition (TV, Radio, Gossip, Ignorance), today!
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Being the dependable, strong, reliable, and predictable one all the time will only get YOU depended upon, recognized as, expected to, and assumed to be, all the time. Not every moment will work/work out in YOUR favor and YOU have a right and reasons to be vulnerable sometimes. If YOU are always “pouring” YOU won’t ever get the chance to reposition, recharge, or be refilled. What will happen is that YOU will only be expected to repeat.
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For the old man…
I’m crying
for the old man
that as a young man
never managed
and now as an old man
is only damaged
no longer a whole man
so he’s stranded
left to fend for leftovers
from the last place he slept over
so he’s famished
no complexion
just blemished
no facade
its vanished
wishing history would repeat
so he can replenish
or he’s finished
So for the old man I plan it
so that I don’t panic
in him I see incomplete
no image
no advantage
he can’t sit down
from no standards
didn’t heed warnings
now he’s empty handed
by definition a bastard
by default a bandit
his excuses routine
his existence random
should’ve, would’ve, could’ve
his anthem…
So I’m crying
for the old man
that as a young man
never managed
and now as an old man
is only damaged
no longer a whole man
so he’s stranded…
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©2013 Cornelious “See” Flowers
Some people don’t know that YOUR strength is not the result of YOU once being weak but is actually the response to YOU having to have once been “without”. “Strong” people are often the most vulnerable and sensitive to the elements and environments via their resiliency. “Strength” takes more than meets the eye, more than likely, YOUR strength took a while and it takes everything that YOU have just to be “strong” enough to know it.
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