The Road Onward.
Some thoughts strung together into a poem.
I’m finding myself at a crossroads of my own personal reinvention and sticking to my list of bold ambitions I crave to accomplish
Endless questions are being projected in my mind ask to how it’s all going to happen yet I don’t want to care
because the important thing is that I’m doing it.
Reversing my decision to never attend college,
the ambition to have my own
apartment that could be closer to my current job,
to write and live the artist’s way
to live how I want to live in my own idealized lifestyle
creating endless product for the world to consume
as an expression of what was going
on within my inner world, sharing stories I’ve enjoyed in private.
Struggling to figure out a balance between all aspects.
The road onward is brighter than the path traveled,
with the sights of “the old” flying past and fleeting, not holding a candle light to what’s ahead.
I just have to keep going, day by day, minute by minute, break by break.
What I pray for is that somehow it all works out for the bigger picture
of wanting a better life than where I am.
May God be of witness as I write this, that I’m not trying to come off as “ungrateful”
but I want to move on from the story of living with my parents because I’m too broke
and scared to actually try embracing the steps ahead up a tortuous mountain
The mountain that might not be as difficult to climb
It only looked as if it was, but isn’t.
I sincerely hope for my future self that’s the case and it’s comforting to have it be the
possibility that plays out in this world, the preferred one.
I’m in a bold stage of “it’s time to move on and do something new”
but I am too afraid to figure out the details or never find them in time.
To my God, I’m not saying I don’t trust or have faith
but I’m worried as to how everything is going to work out.
The path is a little foggy and I can’t see every detail,
perhaps it is by your design that I’m not supposed to.
I just want you to walk with me through the entire process because you know as well as
I do that I’m forever going to be dependent on your voice and grace.
Life is never meant to be played alone.
Life is a confusing puzzle that was never meant to be a piece to work on alone, especially with all of my pieces misplaced
and scattered, trying to figure it all out.
Constantly working the mental obsession of trying to fit it all in but,
just now entering a chapter where I'm getting it all together.
I was completely lost when the pandemic hit and had absolutely no trajectories in life
nor any grounded sense of ambitions or goals to tackle
Before I got close to you, I didn’t see a path forward
illuminated by your light.
I only saw nothing but darkness which only made me more depressed.
Didn’t think life would be so open to me the way it has been.
But to you, I pray with my hopes for a better future
while traveling on the road onward.
About the Creator
Guillermo
Photographer, writer, poet.


Comments (2)
Fantastic poem! Great work
Heyo✨ Let's do a teamwork I like your stories and you gonna like mine 🫶🏻♥️