tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55562785413683910092024-03-08T22:11:17.067+05:30The Warrior Wins :)You can. You will. You ARE!Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-9870327422629378152012-01-21T02:41:00.002+05:302012-01-21T02:46:10.398+05:30... In the root Of One Heart ...<div style="text-align: justify;">How many do you know that'd take <i><b>rejection</b></i> with understanding<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How many would think of your <span style="font-size: x-large;">upliftment</span> still<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How many would continue to be friends of yours<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How many would shower you with their unconditional love<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>I <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>know</i></span> of someone who <i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">loves</span></i> me still;</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I feel Him talking to my heart,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I hear Him teaching me where to cut corners,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I find Him asking me to look beyond-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the greater good, at understanding, at forgiveness, at kindness.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Routine appreciation and love cards <i>aren't</i> vital to Him,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Nor</i> are difficult fasts and pious visits to holy shrines.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Just <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>show</i></b></span> Him that you're focused, and on the right track running,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eager to learn, progressing, wanting to grow, while help providing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>He </b><span style="font-size: x-large;">knows</span><b> sincerity from deception, trying from fulfilling,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Determination from fearful flight and <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>faith</i></span> from empty talks.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the <span style="font-size: x-large;">root</span> of His Heart the tapestries of our lives find <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>color</i></span>;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That little fact <i>hasn't</i> changed now and <i>won't</i> ever!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Make promises to Him just as you always did,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ask</span> for the accomplishment of your desires like you have before;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pray for a light, happy yellow day to unravel as soon as you've awoken,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chalk out your plans with Him before you turn off the lights at midnight.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Guidance</span><b> <i>doesn't</i> come to everyone- </b><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">cherish</span> <i style="font-weight: bold;">yours!</i></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-65110635254774301212011-12-19T03:10:00.004+05:302012-01-02T12:42:43.258+05:30EXPLORE- your insight didn't end with Columbus!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Life</i></b></span> is odd only when <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>you</i></b></span> have the time to think about it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One person's carelessness, someone else's characteristic madness,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A third's fumbling mood swings or yet another's forgetfulness<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>??</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>What</i> makes the spokes on the wheels of your life turn and <i>why</i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's someone you're ignoring and somebody else ignoring you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are times you want to talk, at times you do little but run;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, we go through the routine, one eventful day at a time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>What</i> makes us <span style="font-size: x-large;">last</span> this long<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> <i>What</i> blends cheer into cruelty<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes you pine to do things, but let a tiny thought stop you;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The thought is one translating, fear to reality before it is born.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">And still, something <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">inside</span> you, reason ceases to see- adamant,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Not</i> wanting to lose it's freedom- <i>Who</i> now found for it, it's voice<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're surrounded by piles of undone chores, jobs to complete,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All you really want <i>and</i> do is rest, throwing upwards your feet;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When your sense of responsibility storms, making you scrub hard,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's throwing around its weight- <i>What</i> makes you listen and obey<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>What</i> is it that works <span style="font-size: x-large;">better</span> than a cane thrashing your back<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>What</i> gives to you your goal, your purpose when starting to slack<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're picking yourself from the dumps, figuring about life,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're <i>probably</i> at the brink of something special;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">Maybe</span>, you'll now stumble upon your diamond in the sand,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;">Maybe</span></b>, you'll fly spaceships leading to a whole new clan,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Maybe</span>, you'll leap across oceans from far atop the mountain,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Maybe</span></b>, you'll simply cycle through alleys, deep in the wild sea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Nobody</i> can fill the void that grows in your heart from emptyness;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Find passion- your magic, your dance form, an art, your music.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Feel the <b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">fire</span></i></b> rising from within the very depth of your <span style="font-size: x-large;">soul</span>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Taste it's hunger, it's <i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">raw</span></b></i> desire, to overcome all it was told;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Solve</b> the quests within you, unanswered, challenging you to try,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There <i>ain't</i> no road to travel, strapping a comrade for time to fly.</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-47067129153236775962011-12-13T19:40:00.043+05:302011-12-19T03:24:42.334+05:30Mopping up the dance floor- to shine!<div style="text-align: justify;">A <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>smile</i></span></b> can come from tragedy,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Guilt</i> can come from misery,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Irritation can come from sanity,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Freedom can </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">stem</span><b> from impulsive activity;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, the leap can seem too much.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why</span><b style="font-size: xx-large;">?</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Victories</span></b> have a harrowing past,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Adventures have <i>within</i> them stories that last,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Your deepest vows have an </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">insight</span><b> so vast,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Will-power possesses strength to race you ahead fast;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, you slip time and again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why<b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thoughtless doing brings you gain,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mindful planning brings with it intense rain,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stepping on broken shells brings pain,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">The <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">right</span></b></i> time and space makes all effort seem vain;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, your <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">faith</span> falters.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why<b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You have all of your answers;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You know how far to jump,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You know you'll find your grip,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You know of prayer from practice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just hold on to familiarity!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Breathe.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Live.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">WITNESS.</span></b></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-42674407078866279972011-11-23T21:06:00.136+05:302011-12-05T18:48:00.376+05:30Riding with an axe in the handle? Hold on!<div style="text-align: justify;">In the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>palm</i></span></b> of each soul, unfolds a brand new story;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The radiance in each face, singing verses of <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">His</span></b> glory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How, when, in what and why we're different,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No mortal can think and tell;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Yet, in </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">one heart</span><b> lie our roots,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>The deepest depth of our shell.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When petals go on to bloom,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And their sweetness go on to lose;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Who</span> is it that staunchly objects,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Beautiful <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">dew</span></i></b> instead to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">choose<b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who is it, in innocence, suffering their several pricks<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Who</span> reflects back the meanness <i>spewing</i> in their kicks<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pieces of the pond, when begin to bleed;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Who</span> tidies up the water,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Getting Heavens to <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">seal</span></b></i> the leak<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When our cup with injustice overflows;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Who</span> throws that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">dash</span> of yellow,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To brighten what is bleak<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Today, I have no answers,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Only questions to ponder over and ask;</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Knowing, I've been led by </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">prayer</span><b>,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Random <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">repetition</span></b></i> that got me through the task.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As minutes of the day continue to pass by,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A soothing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">balm</span> appears,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Healing hurts that threatened to cry;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dedicated warriors returning from battles hard-fought,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Still wondering</u></b>-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Whoever their blood-stained slate to <i><b>wipe</b></i> clean taught<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>?</b></span></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fury seems gone, kindness exploding,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All it took was a hug, some genuine understanding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did the wrong get undone<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maybe not as one would have liked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>But was the <i>goodness</i> rewarded??</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For sure, despite every evil that purposefully spiked!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>A warm, </b><i><b>sunshiney-</b></i><b>bright day,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Need come not always in an expected way;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Look out for <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">showers</span></b></i> of blessings in cold nights,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moist greenery making up for <i>plump</i> bundles of hay! ;)</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-3395982312378628082011-10-26T13:50:00.003+05:302011-10-26T13:53:06.459+05:30The Light has come searching<div style="text-align: justify;">There are perspectives we have and those we find,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You see truth in both, appealing to the mind;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Struggles in yours that wholly define,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unthinkable <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>feats</b></span></i> in theirs that'll bring out shine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">What</span> will you choose today and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">why<b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Glory waits for you to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>hatch</b></span> out and touch the sky.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Madness is what they might set out to see,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let the craziness in you flow;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">At least you'll know your soul danced <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">free</span></i>,</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why</span> cringe, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">why</span> hide- just let your spirit <i>glow!</i></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">When the seed matures, it toughens with resolve,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bringing sweetness to the fruit, life's puzzles to solve.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>The victor <i>ain't</i> taking hurt with him on his journey,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>The cup he seeks, then comes prancing softly.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Witness what you've wanted and what you have now,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's here, it came! Chase it to the tail- make it <i>bow!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Give <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">birth</span></b>- to you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Write your <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">own</span></i> fairytale;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Cut the petite ribbon that holds claiming you're frail,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Within you, let the world with all of it's beauty sail.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">fabulous</span></i>, you'll know,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let your heart go on to grow;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For there would be no colored <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">flowers</span></b>,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If buds, in fear, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>will</b></span> to lose no more, their covers.</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-24840835491098746572011-10-22T02:51:00.004+05:302011-10-22T03:00:16.115+05:30Being captain of the ship that sails still...<div style="text-align: justify;">I want to be all I can be and more, in each of my days;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, I wish so strongly, to forget <i>not</i> my peace,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His Presence filling magic in silent star-lit nights.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">two</span></b> faces of mine <i>don't</i> seem to match at all;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I know they're mere versions of me,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Why</span> then search for any of them, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">why</span> call<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reading the uncertainty stemming from familiar faces,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I look knowingly, only to step away further, faster;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is it about <i><b>diversions</b></i> making sure I'll last longer<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">God</span></b> in Heaven up there has been patient and kind;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">He <i>hasn't</i> said a word, yet <i>hasn't</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ever</span> left my side.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Surely, He has listened, for I can feel it in my bones;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>There's </b><i>still</i><b> a calm smile staring back through stones.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'll chug along okay- all I need is mandatory sleep,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've to remember I'm human, despite thoughts I think;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Small things I <i>ignore,</i> go <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">long</span> ways,<i> my sanity to keep!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We'll <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">persist</span></b>, we'll <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">win</span>- each of us, all of us;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We've begun this journey together,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And we know in our hearts that, we began <i>not</i> to quit!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b><i>Nay,</i> we ain't quitting, folks! We <i>never</i> will.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-decoration: underline;">Simply <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">because</span></i> we can, we will and we </b><i style="text-decoration: underline;">still</i><u style="font-weight: bold;"> ARE!</u><br />
<br />
<i>Fight to WIN!!!</i><br />
<br />
xoxo</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-5177970314604908322011-09-30T03:01:00.000+05:302011-09-30T03:01:15.313+05:30Struggling to breathe? It's EASY.<div style="text-align: justify;">We've all got an <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">ego</span></b></i>- a teeny, tiny, nasty one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How would you react <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">if</span></i> life asked you to get rid of it<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The task <i>isn't</i> easy, nor is the picture of our lives rosy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your empty head <i>may</i> give you a false sense of security,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It <i>may</i> seem like your only living lifeline;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, reality <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>bites</b></span> as it draws you into it's hollow well.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Take <i>pride</i> in being <i>you</i>.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>aren't</i> only who you might be someday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>aren't</i> a pale picture of the skeletons in your closet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are you- <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">today, now, here</span></b>- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>YOU</b></span> are beautiful.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">You are alive, well, breathing, sharing, spreading cheer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are walking, working, climbing, aiming, achieving.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are dreaming, creating, risking, thinking, re-trying.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are bright success in a dreaded bunch of losers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">tide</span></b>, ripping apart high walls of captivity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are the shining star, hoping- glowing in dark nights.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">heart</span></b> where The Warrior lives, tirelessly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Turn to look into the mirror and pause.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>See the rarity, sharpness and brilliance that is you<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When it seems like you <i>can't</i> breathe no more, I promise;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The strings of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">hope</span> will strum their way into your soul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> ache for the gloss painting your exterior, not yet;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sweet victories will sing their harmonies unto you, I bet!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Take that road that nobody dares to take;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>With <b>love, life</b> and <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">luck</span></i></b>- effervescent memories make!</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The tale is long, but it's beauty is true;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In difficulties- sigh, but know this <i>isn't</i> the end of you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are my warrior, my winning hero;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Being you is my <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">pride</span></i></b>- given that, I have <i>no</i> sorrow!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It'll be a new day, in time things will change;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'll remain indebted to you for being a <i>little</i> strange-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For persisting, walking, marching through acres of dung,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While holding back tears, the anger upon your tongue.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You know <i>not</i> of your illuminance today, my sweet girl!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As words spill over to watch the world around you swirl.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The voices in my spirit beckon, but I just hold you tight;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>There'll come a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">day</span> when everything's set right,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>I'll take you by the pond- in <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">your</span></b></i> reflection, to delight!</u></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-49286182740767279032011-08-24T02:13:00.000+05:302011-08-24T02:13:07.684+05:30Cracked vision needs the therapist in you<div style="text-align: justify;">What about the days when you're too busy to pray<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He finds a way to stay- in your heart, in peculiar ways.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While you're thinking about the problems in your path;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He's wishing you'd <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>trust</b></span> Him more for now and rest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It will all get sorted in time- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">He</span> knows that, do you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As guilt-ridden thoughts burden your mind, ashaming,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> liken your relationship with <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Him</span></b> to one of many-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Strong relationships left behind in the sands of time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">God <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>knows</b></span> you inside out- He has walked with you;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He <i>hasn't</i> ever been in the dark- <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">why</span></i> cry or apologize<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Every person you meet is Him, each new situation is His;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be as confident as you are when you're alone with Him,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For if truth be told, it always is just <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">two</span></b></i>- Him and you.<a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When what you'll say to someone else worries you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Say what you will when you're talking to Him-</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There <i>ain't</i> no cross-questioning, no issues, no hurt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Reach the depths of the valleys to ever want to soar;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Fight the suffocation of darkness- breathe, then roar.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">special</span></b></i>, sweet child!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Treat yourself with wise love and healing, tender care.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you <i>aren't</i> on your side, the greatest enemy is you;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When love is yours, the world sleeps <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">within</span></i> your palm.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Open</span></b> your heart to greater love, to Light, to radiance;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Accept credit for all that you are- you <i>deserve</i> all of it!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Look at yourself as a Mother looks at her child forever;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>You'll find <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">all</span></b></i> you need to heal gaps that cracked time.</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's beauty in your soul that lights up lives around;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shrivel <i>not</i> in despair, you are a pillar of hope for many.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Being <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">honest</span></b></i> with you means leaving criticism behind,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There <i>ain't</i> no truth, prejudiced with a curtain of shame.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Rise</span> beyond yourself to a world struggling in need;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're to measure your worth with your actions alone,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Throw yourself headlong, struggle to nourish and enrich-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Purpose</span> can cure a heart buried in the filth of anguish.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>There's a reason, a path, a life, a destination, a story;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>But in that, <i>don't</i> forget- there's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">YOU</span>- in you, Him.</b></u></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-52216809473180553852011-08-19T22:11:00.000+05:302011-08-19T22:11:49.585+05:30Keep singing your song because YOU like it<div style="text-align: justify;">When people criticize you, your behavior or your work,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're affected only if <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">you</span></i></b> think that <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">they</span></i> are right.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you find yourself fighting for <i>your</i> respect- work on it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">will</span> get to the top of your game, I assure you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>heal</b></span> an insult pricking you in the light of the day,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rendering you speechless while wanting to play defense;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Work away into the nights, <i>not</i> caring for time or sweat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">effort</span> to clear the scars <i>off</i> your personal record,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your passion to become the best and your hurting ego;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They'll light up your spirit- you will <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">glow</span></b></i> with pride.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">When people blame you for something you <i>haven't</i> done,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When they're being unjust, insensitive and mean-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Try explaining calmly, honestly, yet discreetly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If it <i>doesn't</i> have effect though, be happy that you tried!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Rise</span></b> above your anger and disgust for their callousness.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be glad you're <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>you</i></span>, blessed with greater understanding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Explaining your position to the others in the same space,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When they <i>won't</i> feel for you or say the right words;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is a wastage of <i>your</i> time, value, emotion and intent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Puff up your collar knowing <i>you're</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">fabulous</span>- <i>why fret</i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Quit feeling guilty about maladjustments life brings;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>You're doing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>all</i></span> you think is right- you're doing well.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Remember- you're the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">one</span> that matters most- <i>so, sing!</i></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-32513686224633292552011-08-11T17:33:00.002+05:302011-08-11T18:19:59.510+05:30Speedboats race you ahead of your time<div style="text-align: justify;">When facing a problem, simply <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">ask</span></b></i> for what you want;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For God listens even as you cringe and think you <i>can't</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seek, demand, visualize, believe- that is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">all</span> it takes,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like cookies in His bakery, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">He</span> sits up there and bakes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Within <i>mere</i> minutes, you have sprinted across miles;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The mess you'd bent over, now cleaned up, <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">shiny</span></i> tiles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did you do anything different except focus on the good<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, instantly destiny leads away from where you stood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Your</span></b> body language, thoughts, beliefs, understanding;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">These were what lifted you, <i>bad luck</i> not withstanding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is completely acceptable to start work on you again;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It'll be immensely respectable, now <i>that's</i> a fair bargain.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Shed the <i>fake</i> hide you've been carrying upon your back;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">You're beautiful, <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>bright</b></span></i> and brilliant, why think of lack<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The scars, your insecurities- they'll fade with exposure;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All you need is polishing, the quivering will find closure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Bring on all your charm, your wit and cheerful ways,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Fearing your present equates rejecting golden days;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be happy for goodness longing to flood <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">open</span> your gate,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dream of your destination, treat yourself <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>first-rate</b></span></i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The time wheel is spinning, it is radiating pure bliss;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let your happiness explode, even when the snakes hiss.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>The beauty of your <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">heart</span></i> enticing lives from afar,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Prove- kindness matters; goodness still bears power.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your wants, your wishes and desires <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">will</span> easily awake,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dream</span> up greater goals, to float in boats by the lake;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Each day you're inching closer to your purpose- so dear,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The angels are calling, pushing, shoving until you <i>near!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The journey brings a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">smile</span> as you think about it now,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">One day, you'll wonder what it took to happen and <i>how!</i></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-24190925565944283552011-08-10T18:15:00.002+05:302011-08-10T18:19:26.912+05:30Walk the stairs to eat your cheese<div style="text-align: justify;">When left standing at the centre of an asterix,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even an eight-legged octopus is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">bound</span> to feel torn.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Relax.</span> Breathe. This <i>isn't</i> an obstacle race.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Life is <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">easy</span></b></i> because it was designed with you in mind.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>When your thoughts speed by leaving you speechless,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Stay calm- blowing your top worsens your standing.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sands that slipped to fall <i>can</i> be scooped up again,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your battles, overlapping, <i>can</i> be fought to win in time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't run!</i> Walk, crawl, keep going- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">every</span> step counts!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The days <i>might</i> come to shock, despite your all efforts;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But who is it that you come home to late in the nights<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">On bringing back a <i>herd</i> to party at your expense,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whom do you think you're favoring- them <i>or</i> <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">yourself</span></b></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Venting, blaming and praying are all different things;</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Which one of these have you been busy doing lately<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ladders</span> were created to reach wherever you must go;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">However long you take, the framework remains sturdy,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Climb, fall and climb again- it <i>won't</i> ever cease to exist.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>might</i> have sprained an ankle- heal soon, it will;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>might</i> have lost your way, paths will find you still.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Gaze fondly at the <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">silent</span></b></i> unshaken bonds, the comfort,</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be grateful for hidden mercies that move into the light;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where would you be without these to hold you in place<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Would there continue to even be a race<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Or</span> Would you have turned away, to run instead of face<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tough decision that <i>could</i> have been, eh<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Have you found your reason to believe in Him, yet<b style="font-size: xx-large;">?</b> ;) ;)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Glide along the shore as <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>gracefully</i></span> as can be,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a shining star waiting for you by sea;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take it into your hands and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>let</i></span></b> it guide you ahead,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Check your heart though- is it allowing you to be led<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Respect where you are, the happy roads are narrow;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Whatever limb you take, it'll begin here, that arrow.</b></u></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-9330787342597332252011-08-03T04:28:00.001+05:302011-08-03T04:40:13.215+05:30Rub the sleep out of your eyes<div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>may</i> go about explaining several things to so many;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But learn from simple people, the skills they teach you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They <i>might</i> not dream the big dreams you've dreamed,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They <i>may</i> not seem at all, competitively aggressive;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But they know what happiness is to them- <i>respect that!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">know</span></b> how to live in the now and accommodate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Accredit them for they exude confidence to perfection,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thriving with heads held <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">high</span> in a world ready to crush.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Look within <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">yourself</span></i>; what do you see<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A hard-working self; intelligent and goal oriented<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A sincere, obedient, sensibly-diplomatic job candidate<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A conscientous, reliable, dedicated, caring enthusiast<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>yet</i></span>, you think that you're <i>not</i> enough<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">This <i>doesn't</i> seem to fit right at all.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">YOU</span> are what a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">lot</span> of people would <i>never</i> be.</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">God blessed you with wisdom, compassion and honesty;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He gave to you, a heart that truly feels for every other.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>He is guiding you- understand why you're <i>here</i>, today.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You've got an important chapter of your life to learn;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, rote memorization and false promises <i>won't</i> help.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Absorb</span></b> the goodness of the opportunity in your palm,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Be the <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">best</span></i> version of you, day after day;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Strive to make your presence felt, wherever you may go.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's much in you to be merely attending like the rest;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Shine!</span></b></i> You may <i>never</i> be adequately indispensable,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it is upto you to make sure your zeal <i>isn't</i> forgotten.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for that dream you see<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> <i>Don't</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">EVER</span> give up!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Hold on <i>even if</i> the skies were to fall down upon you;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Cling tight <i>even if</i> life as you know it, threatens to end.</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is more to you, <i>I promise!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I want to see you <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">live</span> your life <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>exactly</b></span></i> as you'd like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Walk boldly for what you seek now is <i>only</i> the <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">start</span></b></i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pull your socks up and tie those shoe laces tight!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your destiny awaits you- remember that ALWAYS.</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-57941019543317459832011-08-01T02:42:00.003+05:302011-08-01T02:47:31.993+05:30A life, a bond, a story<div style="text-align: justify;">For every evil creature in our world that exists,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is someone right here, that <i>they</i> adore to bits.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For every goodness that you know, in you there is,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is something <i>you</i> hate in the ones you love most.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For every injustice that ever was meted out unto thee,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is so much <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>love</i></span></b> that it brings tears into thy eyes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For every blessing upon you, that has been bestowed,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a story cutting so deep- it makes you cry often.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Words, sentences, actions can go on to hurt amass;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But that <i>unseen</i> connection there is between your souls<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tearing through <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">living</span> sheaths of unending grievances,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It speaks volumes in it's silence of you to one belonging.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">When slaps echo, your responses hurling through the air,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In your stamping, biting, fuming, beating and arguing,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And carelessly over-stepping every border there was;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Is <i><b>your</b></i> heart the <i>only</i> one that tugs at you in your chest,</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>As it shrinks, shrivels and begs in despair for His mercy</u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Or</span></b> <b>Do you <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">sense</span></i> the pull at the other end of it all,</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Even as it stretches to escape away in child-like angst<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For when you do, know- you <i>have</i> touched your divinity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The lump in your throat, the magnet drawing you closer;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">God <i>might</i> have made for us a weird universe, alright!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But with the love flooding the very insides of your being,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He reached His highest peak- surely, <i>no</i> mistake making.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Sobbing</i> remorse and <i>hungry</i> guilt in darkness no cure is;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let emotions breathe, intertwinning your souls in Light.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>God hears you, He feels you and knowingly forgives.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> be ashamed of raging fury that arose, dying softly;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Give abundant <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>thanks</b></span></i> for His messenger that came,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Calming your mind with His soothing balm of <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">wise</span></i></b> rain.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cherish the love, the purity- sheer beauty that engulfs,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>When <i>no</i> words are spoken, <i>no</i> movement ever made;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>When </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">two</span><b> souls just are and all is serene once again.</b></u></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-70994570580889985672011-07-29T03:42:00.004+05:302011-07-29T05:16:50.246+05:30Close your eyes & open your hands<div style="text-align: justify;">Milestone events happen <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">automatically</span></b></i> sometimes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How, what, when, why- you probably <i>never</i> planned;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet the biggest and the best falls straight into your lap.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course, you've always wished for abundant goodness,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"But, <i>this?</i> Really?"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Have you <i>ever</i> caught yourself wondering<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It <i>might</i> be a different direction, but it'll lead you right;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">is</span> His masterstroke, though the path is out of sight.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He hears your questions, as He <i>works</i> to ease the haze;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Shh!</i> Quieten your thoughts- abide throughout the maze.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">You'll be <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>okay</b></span>! So, quit worrying- it is a nasty habit!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where are the days when you <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">believed</span></b> <i>without</i> limit<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's perfectly <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">safe</span> to accept, trust and aim to achieve;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Happiness multiplies when you <i>allow</i> yourself to receive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clean the broken records from long ago- it is a new era;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Grab this opportunity- grow, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">excel</span>, brighten your aura.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">This was in the package deal of <i>friendship</i> and His lifts;</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">God wants you to have faith, to enjoy His surprise gifts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He needs you to trust <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">more</span></b></i> than you can often muster;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet, leaves you indebted, as His <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">love</span></b></i> turns to shelter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your prayer is your <i>direct</i> connection that works,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though He reads your mind, around you as He lurks;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b><i>Don't</i> be stingy with praise! Be gracious, thank Him.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">In undoing a curse, He has freed you from a life so grim.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bob along the <i>gentle</i> stream, taking in sights of glory!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dip your hands in the water, write with Him your story;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Play, sing, hope, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">dream</span></b>, wish in merriment- rejoice!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Feel calmness, wave to stillness- make an active choice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>He heard you when you prayed in your darkest hour,</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You <i>won't</i> have to struggle to gain or ever be sour;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Life will carry you upon His able shoulders, <i>you'll see,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For now though- patience is a virtue, so learn to <i>just be!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hold on a bit longer, the <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">prize</span></b></i> is headed your way,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Watch out for the opening that'll lead you into the <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">bay</span></i></b>.</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-87442582787127020312011-07-26T02:42:00.000+05:302011-07-26T02:42:13.446+05:30Jump over the puddles- there's magic!<div style="text-align: justify;">Happiness <i>never</i> has to wait; it's true.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Think with me- We <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">all</span> have so many rosy thoughts,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But do we actually <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>do</i></span></b> anything with them<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That is wasting a precious life in vain, <i>don't</i> you think<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What is it that you'd give up everything to do<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">??</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I know my answer for sure, as I type this out to you;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I <i>can't</i> believe I <i>hadn't</i> thought much of it earlier.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">is</span> meaning to the extended madness;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is a <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">purpose</span></b></i> behind the rocks in your path.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The universe wants you to wake up to your power;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">time</span> you knew of the greatness that is your life.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>No!</i> Perfection <i>never</i> comes because learning goes on;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hold tightly your dream and <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>squeeze</b></span></i> it until it is dry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who said you <i>aren't</i> needed or appreciated in the now<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Who said you <i>aren't</i> ready to pull off miracles, yet<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whoever did, lied to you and stole from you your drive;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Catch 'em by the neck, turn to look them in the eye,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>And <i>empower</i> them with your gift of perception.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Promise me that you'll <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">think</span></b> about your desires again;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cherish them, shower them with the oxygen they need.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>aren't</i> a trailing, insincere shadow, my dearest;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For look closely and notice- your route stands <i>apart!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">blessed</span> just as you have always wanted to be;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's funny you're taking so long to even realize it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Get a notepad, put down your ideas, chew them out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Freedom is <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">longing</span></b></i> to happen to <i>you!!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ah! <i>Don't</i> let doubts steal your thunder away;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">A <i>mere</i> glimpse is as real as what stares at you always.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Faith, confidence, imagination, hope and passion;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>When you've packed in these, you're ready to go.</b></u> <b>:)</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Remember the things <i>only</i> others seemed to have<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>won't</i> need to wonder no more- <i>no</i> feeling small,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>No</i> wishing, wailing, cursing, while still <i>not</i> knowing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The control is with <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">you</span></b>, the happiness is yours;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But, I believe that your Plans are surely from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">up</span> above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seize the opportunity that's shining through the night,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flutter your wings until you're certain that you're lighter;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">See that gap in the cage<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> I think you'll fit just right- <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">fly!</span></b></i></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-82703500096725165872011-07-25T02:17:00.001+05:302011-07-25T02:27:39.511+05:30Orientation helps<div style="text-align: justify;">It's hard to start from scratch, a journey you'd once quit;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'm a tough girl and I know I <i>can</i> win <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">if</span></i> I want to.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, while at the temple, I said my usual prayer,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then <i>waited</i>, as always, to hear God's reply to me;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Three-quarters of the wisdom here, I receive from Him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somebody once told me that humans are too intelligent,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That they manage to believe whatever they want to;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">God</span></b> could very well be a made-up proposition-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">legend</span></b></i> someone created to lighten their own heart.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I wondered as I sat there, if it was me I've always heard;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And so, I debated on and off, arguing, taking sides.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">In the process, I felt like I was being questioned;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>Do you believe in me<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?"</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Or "</span>Do you think there is nothing above yourself<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?"</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I stuttered back, keeping my madness quotient in check,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b>I believe in you- I'd rather believe I'm protected, loved,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And cared for forever than feel all the confusion myself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">But</span> I need to look out for me, too, don't I<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I need to work on my life before my time is gone.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All I could still hear was, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span>Do you <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">believe</span></i> in me<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I thought for a while, saw the lesson in there and said,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b>Yes, but what if my dreams and destiny differ<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">"</span>Who do you think planted those dreams in your head<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Why do you think you're being led in this direction<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?"</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When those words hit me, I felt instant peace.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's difficult, but I choose to believe in Him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">choose</span> to believe that my life has a <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">true</span></b></i> purpose;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That I'm being guided and I just need to walk along.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am grateful for a burden being lifted off me, today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Waiting is sad, but <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">hoping</span></b> is fun- I can, I will, I am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Goodness begets goodness and I know I'll get my due.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Have <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">faith</span></i>, for it brings with it sincere liberation;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It gives you strength when you have no answers at all,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It mends your wings, heals your scars, touches your soul,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And gets you to <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">soar</span></b> higher than you'd ever imagined.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's good to be back <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">home</span> to peace, love and Light! :)</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-11305425388623835272011-07-24T02:59:00.001+05:302011-07-24T03:00:32.227+05:30A hint of reality<div style="text-align: justify;">I become immensely envious of people who can just be.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Actually, let me think before I publish this to the world-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is there anyone who can be sure of themselves always<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's truly amazing to be able to <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>love</i></span></b> yourself though.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On a good day like this one, it all sinks in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Our fears, embarrassments and entrapping situations;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>All of these exist <i>only</i> in our heads.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Do they really care about how strange/not you are<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> No.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is anyone genuinely interested in seeing you hurt<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> No.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Can anybody better <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">your</span></i> thoughts for you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> No.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is there light at the end of the tunnel<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> Yes.<br />
<a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've been amiss for a long while;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'm glad I'm gaining my foothold.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">It took me time and support; which I'm grateful I had.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It feels good to write, to motivate, to focus, to affirm;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">need</span></b> my daily dose of thinking good thoughts again!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Do I feel like I'm telling you more than you should know<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, oh yes! Umm hmm. <i>(shaking head side to side)</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But as someone very wise said to me, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b>I'm human first.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, I'm going to make sure I respect my every emotion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>I'll acknowledge my doubts and stumbling phases;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Yet, I'll rise high, achieving every dream I've dreamt.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I've realized that for success to come, I need to be <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>me</i></b></span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">TheBlogWriter8 has been too worldly-wise, too sharp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">She <i>might</i> have a lot of my traits, but she <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">isn't</span></i> me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To think that she'll win my battles for me is deception.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>I struggle, I fear, I cringe, I hide, I fall;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>But I also try, I pray, I preach, I open-up, I climb.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">My truth might not seem as promising as her facade,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'll invite you to walk with me to the top;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>faith</b></span></i> that persistence <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">will</span> surely get us there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the past few weeks, I've slipped downhill;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I've also felt a strong <i><b>urge</b></i> to work on myself again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Work, I will- it's easier when you've been there before;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Not</i> because you know the path- oh no,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's simpler because you know <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">where</span></b></i> you're headed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you for reading me and bringing me happiness;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's been a good association and I aim to make it <i>better!</i></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-91151133361510681122011-07-21T02:48:00.002+05:302011-07-21T04:30:00.815+05:30A chapter in the story<div style="text-align: justify;">In <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>abundance</i></span></b>, fruitflies attack and decay, attempt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">adversity</span>, the crows peck; tearing meat, rejoice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Curiosity kills the cats and thus, their value in your eyes;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Years of your virtuousness, in disdain, beginning to fade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where do you think they <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">all</span> stand in your life<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you now settle amidst walls <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>thicker</i></b></span> than steel<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No matter what decision, hereon you may take,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Know that life, for the best happens always.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>wisdom</b></span> in the bitter pill that awakes,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is <i>only</i> your betterment in the silly retakes.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Layered in sheets of encrypted stories,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">peace</span></b> enveloping you in His mercy;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Capture strength from <b>pictures</b> you've drawn in dreams,</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Surrender to <i><b>faith</b></i>, wear His love as your <i>winning</i> jersey.</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The numbers may flip, faces may fall or change at best,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For sanity, keep your cards <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>close</b></i></span> unto your chest;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let your heart not utter a beat too loud,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Promises you must keep, in quiet, away from the crowd.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The gossip-mongers <i>won't</i> know dead from the live,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They're too busy <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">asking</span>, to feel, yet you'll thrive;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The secret lies in that they now <i>don't</i> matter no more,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">It's destiny, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">know</span></b>- in misery, they'll <i>never</i> be your shore.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Go on and grab your fill of whatever you may like;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>There's things to do, mountains with <i><b>bare</b></i> hands to hike.</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your world is changing, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">hold</span> on to what is a must;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's some that you can carry, the rest is mere dust.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">see</span> the skies clearing, the winds of happiness rolling,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's tranquility in the air, your <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">focus</span></i></b> now glowing;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I love who you're becoming out of want and self-desire,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's nothing better than passion, zeal and inner-fire.</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-37845190221485670442011-07-17T16:15:00.004+05:302011-07-17T16:43:52.040+05:30Flight to freedom<div style="text-align: justify;">In breaking, you realize how much you're made of;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">In trying again, you learn to give it your life.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Risks</span></b> are to be taken, in one way or another;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Hope</span></b> ought to get stronger as pathways get narrower.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you remain distraught<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you give up because it's hard<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or Will you fight the tears and simply aim to win<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Ordinary people, simple minds, delicate hearts;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>They go on to achieve great <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>feats</i></span>- <i>they do</i>.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Do you have <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">faith</span></i></b> in you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Maybe not.</i> Why live in your body as you then<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">If you cannot trust you-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> blame life for kicking you in the rear.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or For throwing you onto a heap on the sidewalk.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Strength</span></b> is in growing into the <i>finest</i> version of you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It lies in passing fearlessly through the hottest <i style="color: red; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">fire</i>;<br />
<br />
It means walking unflinchingly on burning pieces of coal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Tantrums <i>won't</i> get you there.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to act dainty,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Go sit cross-legged in the corner;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rest your burdens on someone else,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And <i>wait</i> to be led where they <i>might</i> take you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is a life of <i>pure lifelessness</i>, if you ask me though.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>This is your life; live it your way.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Who are you?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What do you think <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">you</span></b> can do<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where do you see yourself headed<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Do you need <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">help</span> to get there<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What if the risks <i>don't</i> pay off<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you be okay then<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b> or Are you better now<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">The questions could be many, the answer is <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>one</i></span></b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where are your thoughts leading you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That is <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">His</span></b> plan for you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Meditate upon your dilemma- <i>find</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">YOU</span>.</b></u></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-86465327448012493732011-07-13T18:45:00.001+05:302011-07-13T18:51:58.086+05:30Hold on tight to the little things<div style="text-align: justify;">Little things matter more than you can know;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seek <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>peace</b></span></i> and find your <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">stability</span></b> in them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When something so huge comes by in life,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're holding your breath and wondering,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hoping, Praying, Willing for good to come off it;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Catch hold of your pot of vaseline,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You'll know for sure that it'll <i>still</i> remain yours.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Think about how life can possibly differ from now on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you be able to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">lie</span> down with ease tomorrow<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will you be able to throw your <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">feet up</span> and relax<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">How will who <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">you</span></b></i> are or have become change<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Calm down; take an easy breath in and out.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dreams</span> <i>aren't</i> subject to what life may bring.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Yes, you invest so much of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">you</span> into each of them;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>But the results only <i>facilitate</i> your next move.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We do our part and fear the outcome so much;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">any</span></i> of the panic really worth it<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're fabulously intelligent,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're dedicated and hard-working.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Does the universe not notice your potential<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Courage</span></b> <i>isn't</i> about what is written in textbooks;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">It is in living your life as <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">YOU</span></b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> tie yourself down to one tiny consequence;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You are Power, you are Light, you are Love.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Open your eyes to the magnificence that is you.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Things <i>don't</i> happen to you- <i>oh, no, they don't!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">YOU</span> happen to things, you bless them with your time;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <i>convert</i> ordinary to spectacular with your thoughts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The world <i>isn't</i> dictating terms to you;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Look around- It revolves around you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're wondering what will change tomorrow,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Know that something will get <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">lucky</span></b> because-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was destined enough to fall into <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">your</span></i> path;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">will</span> get better because you're so good at it,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your goals will get renewed, life will smile some more,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You will <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">still</span></i> lie down with your feet up in the air,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-decoration: underline;">And that pot of vaseline</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">?</span><b style="text-decoration: underline;"> It'll </b><i style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">still</span></i><b style="text-decoration: underline;"> be yours</b><b style="font-size: xx-large; text-decoration: underline;">!</b> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>:) :)</i></span></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-90224655163774558392011-07-11T08:59:00.002+05:302011-07-11T11:07:41.838+05:30Dare to defy the tide<div style="text-align: justify;">Where there is compulsion, it all becomes distasteful.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Are you <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>forcing</b></i></span> yourself to do things you <i>don't</i> like<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Give me a few minutes to debate with you, then.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>One question, one word- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">WHY?</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because the opposite person will end up feeling bad<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b><br />
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Or Because they <i>won't</i> like you, if you don't<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or Because <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">you</span> <i>won't</i> be their <i>reigning</i> favorite<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or worse, because you fear they'll <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">walk out</span> on you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oh, no, let me guess- etiquette- <i>isn't that it</i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Quit</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">-</span> no, <i>not</i> because I'm asking you to.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quit it because you're <i>only</i> deceiving yourself.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Take all the tit-for-tat social rules and moral conduct,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">weigh</span> them on a set of scales;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other side is your <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>one</b></span> chance for a happy life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>I'm <i>not</i> even questioning who you think will win;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>The answer is <i>glaring</i> right back at anyone who'll look.</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're starting to bog yourself down with guilt,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>guilt</b></i></span> of not being able to be like everyone else;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Know that everyone was not given <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">your</span></b></i> life to live.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They <i>can't</i> do so much that you do with ease.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They <i>might</i> have a fan following, but ask your soul-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Would you be happy to have what <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>you</b></span> are taken away,</u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>To truly become every trait they embody<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If <i>yes</i>, go on, become them,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">change</span> is your faithful, trusted aide;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the universe will help you with all you need.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If <i>not</i>, wipe away the sad streaks off your face,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Discard that cloak of depression you've draped over you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Look out into the world and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">ask</span></b>-</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b>What would I want to do with my day, today<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What will make <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">me</span></i> happy, fulfilled and content<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whom should I <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">bless</span></b> with my presence, today<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will that do <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">me</span></i> as much good as I think it would<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">None of this is being selfish.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The world is like a picnic spot in a park;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">You go there to entertain <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><i>yourself</i></span></b>, <i>not your audience!</i></span></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-7645565041543378302011-07-09T07:43:00.001+05:302011-07-09T07:50:08.029+05:30The start of a new eraYou're <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">late</span>, in a lot of ways.<br />
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<i>Don't</i> bother wondering <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">what</span> you've done all along.<br />
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You're <i>wasting</i> more time than you can afford to.<br />
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Stop trying to backtrack or look up other options.<br />
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<u><b>At the risk of sounding like an irritating monster;</b></u><br />
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<u><b>I'll repeat- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Stop</span>.</b></u><br />
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If you want me to put it a little nicer, here goes-<br />
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You've been cleaning up the periphery of the heap.<br />
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You've been diligently <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>aiming</i></span> to sweep off the pile.<br />
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Now, if we're done with the compliment showering;<br />
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Let's get back to business, shall we<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b><br />
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<b><u>Nothing is lost <i>until</i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">you</span> start fluttering in the wind.</u></b><br />
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Take a deep <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>breath</b></span> in- it works, is cheap and is quick.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Promise</span></b> to yourself that you'll make it for sure.<br />
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No airy words or huge sentences, please!<br />
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I'm looking for <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">grit determination</span></i>.<br />
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Do you notice that today could be a <i>new</i> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></b> for you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b><br />
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Good- chew up that little detail and retain it.<br />
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Take another deep breath- in AND out.<br />
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<b><u>You're doing well.</u></b><br />
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Chalk out a <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">plan</span></b>- make it realistic; <i>no</i> failures allowed.<br />
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It is <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">easy</span></i></b>.<br />
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<i>No</i>, it is <i>not</i> the best way to the other side;<br />
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But I thought we were over that discussion by now.<br />
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You're going to need to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">stop</span> socializing- do it;<br />
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<u><b>It is a <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">tiny</span></i> price to pay and no one is going to hate you.</b></u><br />
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<b style="text-decoration: underline;">If they do- well, it's their loss, right</b><b style="font-size: xx-large; text-decoration: underline;">?</b> ;)<br />
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The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">time</span> you have left is your best friend.<br />
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Only <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>YOU</b></span> can bring Light into your life.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">You <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">will</span> because you can and are trying, too;</span><br />
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<u><b>Just focus better, try harder and stay calmer.</b></u><br />
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YOU are your <i>only</i> weapon- save yourself for the battle.<br />
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No, this <i>isn't</i> military rule, but it is good for you.<br />
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I'll simply trust that you'll follow.<br />
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My gut <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">knows</span></b> that you'll make it in time;<br />
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But that <i>isn't</i> supposed to make you lax.<br />
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Throw yourself headlong into your goal.<br />
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These are some of the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">best</span></b> moments of your life;<br />
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It is up to you to make them the most <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">glorious</span></i>.Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-25102560265117143762011-07-06T06:47:00.001+05:302011-07-06T06:50:34.653+05:30Share the load<div style="text-align: justify;">So often, there's <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">so</span></b> much going on in our minds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Stress</span></b> can take away all your energy;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It can paralyze you from head to toe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're numb and are just <i>waiting</i> for days to pass,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you stir your coffee relentlessly,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Looking for a <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">sign</span></b></i> in the patterns in foam that form;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>When you </u><i style="text-decoration: underline;">can't</i><u> understand who will or should win</u>-</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Your inherent gut feeling or your strongest desires;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you <i>aren't</i> sure whether you ought to be grateful,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To be able to peek into the future and tell;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Slow</span></b> down your mental processes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>power</b></span> you've been losing will show up.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">It is a funny thing about the universe;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you need <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">support</span> more than you can know,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your closest relationships of all time are always there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They might not even know how much that means to you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But your soul-connection knows how to work it's magic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Calm down and take it one step at a time;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>The right moment will present itself to you.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For now, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">continue</span> to keep your senses on alert;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hold on to the <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">secrets</span></b></i> that reveal themselves to you.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Do you realize how many are working towards your goal?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">angels</span> protecting you, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">God</span> that you talk to,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>prayers</b></i></span> whispered in your name, night and day,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">universe</span> that nods to your every wish and dream,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Plan</span></b> that you're following without ever realizing;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This really <i>isn't</i> just your target to meet,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For you <i>aren't</i> the tiny speck that you think you are.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Allow the reasons for your existence to unfold;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ask</span></b> for Spiritual guidance and Divine play to help you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You'll accomplish everything based on your <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">own</span></b></i> merit;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Let the Powers of the universe walk alongside you,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>They want you to know that you're <i>never</i> alone.</b></u></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-7059433166771038372011-07-05T06:34:00.002+05:302011-07-05T06:45:34.222+05:30What curtain are you hiding behind?<div style="text-align: justify;">When your devotion becomes too commercialized,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When your passion seems to have suddenly gone amiss,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're starting to run away from what you loved,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pause and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>reflect</b></i></span>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is the true cause of your boredom out there<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Or</span></b> Is it concealed within the layers of your heart<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No, the words you write <i>don't</i> matter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even what you say <i>doesn't</i> change anything.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What matters is whether you still <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>feel</i></span></b> what you felt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're really living for you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It <i>won't</i> matter what anyone else thinks or <i>might</i> think.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">You'll feel <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">free</span></b></i> enough to own your name,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">claim</span> each thing you do and each thing you say,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To stand tall and proudly announce,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span><u>This is me.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>This is what I like.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am <i>not</i> limited to my current interests.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">so</span></b> much <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">more</span></b></i> than you can <i>ever</i> know.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I want to be everything that makes <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">me</span></b></i> happy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I <i>may</i> not be able to please you each time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I <i>may</i> not be able to play nice and stay diplomatic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I <i>may</i> seem like a sore thumb sticking out awkwardly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the fact is, this is me and I <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>like</b></span></i> being me.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Simple sentences can liberate you.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your priorities <i>may</i> change with time;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>Flow</i></span></b> with the change, <i>don't</i> feel guilty about it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ones who truly benefit from what you do,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ones who love you and your work in all sincerity,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will stay in the same plane, <i>waiting</i> to hear from you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Instead of blowing your lid out of sheer pressure,</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Open the cages you've enforced upon yourself.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Walk <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">free</span></i>. Walk tall. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Glow</span> with pride.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you feel your <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>love</i></span> returning back to you,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You'll work wonders without having to try too hard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's easy, if you let your talents out in the open.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Breathe for you- <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">be your number 1.</span></b></i> :)</div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5556278541368391009.post-28499785319402951632011-07-04T07:25:00.002+05:302011-07-04T07:35:17.854+05:30Sunny side up! ;)<div style="text-align: justify;">Life is <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>easy</i></span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Success, fame, adulation, power, money;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It'll all be <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">yours</span></b></i>, if you truly want it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We pile ourselves with so many expectations;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And fall flat on our faces, if nothing comes off it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>When a storm blows your bright umbrella backwards;</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You most certainly <i>don't</i> need a new one right then.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Turn it around and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">steady</span></b> it against the wind;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's about trial and error, planning and persisting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today is a <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">new</span></b></i> day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> carry with you the negativity of past failure.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Look at yourself through someone else's eyes;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Through the eyes of <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">true</span></b></i> <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">love</span></b></i>, if you will.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What does this person think of you<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Let the rain of their <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">positivity</span></i> flood your mind.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><u>Notice the appreciation they have for your talents.</u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ease your fears just as they would, if they knew.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Be confident.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><u><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">YOU</span> are a charming, vivacious, energetic individual.</b></u></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>Anything that you set out to accomplish, <i>you do!</i></b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Struggling to achieve only to prove to others is <i>pathetic</i>;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't</i> subject yourself to such insane trauma.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The war is still on; you're still controlling the reins.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You're <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">capable</span></b> of so much more than what you think.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Keep your <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">faith</span></b></i> guarded.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your honesty will take you places.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Listen to your Lord when He says, He has a plan.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You've <i>only</i> got to keep walking.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hold on to the railing and <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>pull</i></span></b> yourself up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Keep pulling, keep trying, keep enduring, keep wanting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>The gates will open up, a hand will reach out to you;</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u><b>You will be rescued and dragged up there to safety.</b></u></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Focus</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">-</span> glue your eyes onto the target.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You have your <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">pluses</span></b></i>; throw light on them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Try. Try. Try. Try. Try. Try. Try. Try.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Try harder; it's <i>easy</i> given your potential.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Let's give it our <i>best</i> shot, today, shall we<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">?</span></b></div>Of One Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18252130287155517873noreply@blogger.com10