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My Shield

Weary
Limbs
Trek
Through
The
Incomplete
Morass
Of
Being
Repeatedly,
Encountering
The
Other
Over
And
Over
Finding
Strength

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Yesterday

Darkness
meets
light
As
Smiles
Search
For
Unfamiliar
Meaning
Exploring
Tense
Unskilled
Muscles

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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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