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Will I build My own Freedom or Prison?

The Choice is Mine

By Thavien YliasterPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Will I build My own Freedom or Prison?
Photo by Hasan Almasi on Unsplash

I'm Afraid...

I'm Afraid, I'm Afraid, and I'm Afraid

That I'm not brave

To put the time

To make commitments

To clearly define

A set goal or purpose

As I want the idealistic

Because it's like hell trying to make my own dreams realistic

...

As much as I wanna-

Talk desires and boast

of dreams of grandeur

That small satisfaction can keep me real poor

Never attaining what's grander

Through the fog I meander

I may feel like the man if I talk about my plans

But that small dose

of false hope

Can undermine my hands

...

Heck, My

Plan of Action

Won't gain any traction

If I continue to want to stay in the fog

Progressional Lack will continue to hog

If I sit to decay like a bump on a log

The rest of My time that I have for all days

I'm Afraid that I won't change

Or that I even become regressive

I need to Six Sigma this;

Initiate, Plan, Execute

to become something impressive

I need to trust in the process of moving forward with progress

If I map out the chain I can Lean out the process

Accelerating the progress

...

I'll build a portfolio, make something significant

Gather experiential credentials

Walls of Certificates

The depression stagnation of doing nothing is something I've lived in

The wallowing muck is a self-made prison

Self-pity, Despair

Self-loathing, no Care

Introspection, Glass Lake, God's Eye, into it I stare

Diving to the bottom of my problems I didn't have to hold my breath

The deeper I dove the pressure relieved, no less

...

If I don't push myself forward to see what I can do

I'll be surrounded by ghosts at my bedside, several shades of different hues

Death waits for me in the end,

in this I know I can't pretend

There's only so much of my life that I can extend

...

Denying trials and tribulations is like denying greatness,

It's denying who I am!

I want to build a Life of Freedom! Not a prison to live in.

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay

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About the Creator

Thavien Yliaster

Thank You for stopping by. Please, make yourself comfortable. I'm a novice poet, fiction writer, and dream journalist.

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  • Babs Iverson3 years ago

    Splendid!!!

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