What did you expect?
That the winds would howl around all others
and leave you unruffled.
Or for the Sun's Rays to travel light-years
to warm you and you only.
This is the point
our reason for being
the thing you've searched for
all this time
high and low.
Don't you see?
It is simply to be.
Now,
in this brief instant,
and the next.
Breathe deeply during times of trepidation and tranquillity alike.
All is as nature intended.
To journey through life
is to enrol in the university of adversity.
Don't badge things up
as luck or fate.
They are stories we tell ourselves
when reality seems too difficult to contemplate.
Instead,
let us meditate
with humility, patience and kindness
a sense of service to ourselves and others.
Practice your art until it wears you out
there you will find true contentment.
Acknowledging your place in all time
a pin-prick in this universe,
merely atoms and stardust
returning to source
soon enough.
So step forward with purpose.
For anywhere that you can lead your life
you can lead a good one.
If you like this then check out my Poetry Publication Light // Dark and all the people in-between