The Tipping Point (poem)

The Tipping Point

I see you.....

Workin hard...

Pushing that boulder up the hill

Our efforts, most times

outweigh the outcome

Don’t give up

or stand quietly still

For all that we are

And every sweet move

Consistently adds up to a gain...

Making something from nothing

The love of creation

Was planted straight into our brains

So as we push that boulder

Up to the peak

Of that long, unending steep hill

Muscles strained from the weight

Underneath our legs quake

Bit by bit

We are gaining small wins

Small wins strung together.....

Create something bigger

When we reach the very tip top

That big bulky boulder

One great heave sends it over...

Over that mountain of rock

We watch in awe....arms raised high

Finally free from the strain

But we don’t realize

That very big boulder???.....

The one we shoved over???....

Is at the bottom....

Again....

Frick.....

So off we go with our heads held low

Disappointed....

But we push to begin.....

Realizing this time,

The hill’s a much smaller size....

And our muscles are ready

To dig in

So we push that rock up

The next hill, and the next

Till that big thing becomes much smaller

Our muscles can handle the rough terrain

We become bolder, stronger, wiser

If you have tenacity

And the most fearless of SOULS

You will be able to sit in the space

That asks you to wait, and wait, and wait........

Wait for the very next roll

So To you I say

Love those small wins

They gift us strong backs, arms

and shoulders

It can all come your way

And I knew.....

That one day.....

We’d get damn gifted at pushing them

boulders

To all of the creative people out there

Doing all of the most incredible things

And all of the things that feel hard

Keep going...

We need you around

You make the world a much brighter, better place

A sweet note from me to you...

And....as I push my own bunch of rocks over here....it’s a reminder for me too...

Love, Love, Loving You Well

Love Yourself (poem)

Love Yourself

A thought has been in my awareness

and it is all about self love

This thought

might turn out to be....

a pretty serious one.....

Do you love yourself?

I mean

Really love yourself?

It seems all day we can put thoughts into our head that make us think we do

Spreading pleasant quotes

Through this and that

That share words

And encourage us to

It’s great and all....

But I’ve wondered for a while

If words float around themselves

Or if the work is being done

One to one....

Do you really love yourself??

I think it’s a life long journey

We are complex creatures with minds that get tangled up in the tiniest things

Continuously bombarded

with should have

could have

would haves

Too short...

Too fat...

Too thin...

Too big...

Too small...

Too sensitive...

Too much of all the things

That reveals in time

A dark empty shelf

So

Tell me sweet heart

Do you really love yourself?

It’s tricky sometimes

We clutch so hard

to make it all come true

Love seems a sliding scale

Sometimes we love so easily

And other times....

We don’t want to

And when we are aware

And can lay it bare

That love don’t always come easy

we push through the door

To find shards on the floor

Chaos can make us uneasy

The shards are things we aren’t proud of

That need a bit of holding

A little compassion and empathy

Instead of dark

foreboding

Those fragmented scraps

Of “not good enough”

Need all the sweetest attentions

To know that they belong

when they have done wrong

Cause

It was never their intention

So You toil and build

Piece by piece a most

Colourful work of art

A mosaic made out of the scraps that were....

At one time torn apart

We see all of the

callousness

Understand all the wrong

Lees by lees

Sliver by sliver

Knowing all along

That

It’s a slow pour to fill that cup

Patience is key

So don’t give up

Make it your life’s gentle work

As

gentle rolling swells

on the sea

So Sweetly and with intention

We can slowly close the gap

There will be good days

And bad

But I know that you can

Really learn

Really truly learn

Learn To love yourself

I’m learning everyday

I hope you are too