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Glad to see I’m not alone out there. Real change is a great opportunity for self reflection and service. It’s messy and you have to be all in. Thank you for sharing these thoughts.

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When I was young I wanted to have an impact on the world.

I went through different stages of how I would want to accomplish this task. While going through my blood disorder I wanted to become a doctor, after that I wanted to be in a famous band, and after that I wanted to do something in politics.

I dreamed of changing the world, but I could barely get a handle on my own life and the world that surrounds me, never mind the world at large.

With the coming of the new year I finally feel like I have positioned myself to impact the world on a scale far past anything I have done in the past.

In my dreams I always imagined this point arriving much sooner, but I had a lot of lessons to learn up to this point. Changing the world may seem out of…

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Present Perfect

Crazed
Waves
Beat
The
Shoreline
Savagely
Breaking
Boundaries
By
The
Seaside
Scratching
Deeply
Into
The
Earth,
Perpetually
Opening
New
And
Old
Wounds

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Iron Pillar

Crisp
November
Mornings
Hasten
The thoughts
Of
Spring
As
The
Iron Pillar
Patiently
Waits
To
Till
The
Garden
That
Brings
Peace
To
This
Cultivated
And
Tried
Soul

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The Firm

Broken
Facades
Leaking
Humanity
Within
As
PassersBy
Glance
At
The
Open
Doors
Slipping
Past
Unnoticed
Headed
To
Other
Entrances

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Survivor

Weary
Wondering
Wanting
More
Life,
Getting
Little,
Giving
All
Over
And
Over,
Enduring

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Game Time

Running,
Stumbling,
Faster
And
Faster
In
My
Mind,
Zestfully
Lethargic,
Creating
Bridges
That
Crumble
Before
I
Reach
The
Other
Side

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Source Code

In
The
Distance
Life
Moves
Away
From
The
Youthful
River
Home,
Spilling
Into
Streams
Of
Surprising
Tumult
Filled
With
Intimacy
And
Neglect

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45th & 5th

Street
Lights
Adorn
The
Noise,
Moving
Through
The
Morass
Of
People,
My
Warm
Center
Breaks,
Pushing
My
Soul
To
The pavement,
Smiling,
Eyes
Open,
Unaware
Of
The
Silence
In
My
Mind

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Hands
Move
Quietly
In
Darkness
As
The
Arrow
Is
Released
To
Silently
Slash
Through
The day’s
Efforts,
Breaking
All

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