Truth

A look at life

Can’t sleep tonight

Might as well stay up and  write

Pour my thoughts on this pad

Happy, mad, scared, or sad

What is excellence really at all

But rising greater over every fall

What is success measured by

Except the ability to go through life

Without wondering what you may have passed by

Who are you if to yourself unreal

What is life without reason and zeal

Who are you; do you know

Do you let that out; who do you show

What is happiness except being content

Why worry and try to change what is meant

In absence of control is direction

Always be able to live with your own reflection

Listen for meaning beneath  what is said

Don’t always follow where you are lead

Have your own thoughts; use your own mind

Self realization will you there find

Stand up for what you earnestly believe

Don’t let opposing words deceive

Words unspoken won’t be heard

Never hesitate to mention an opinionated word

Here and now it’s your call

If no one stands up for right; it too shall fall

It always seems words of truth

In the end do the most to soothe

You chose who you are everyday

By everything you do in every way

Change is hard but does exist

Differences are solved by words not fists

Words of advice are hard to take

But can eliminate a critical mistake

There’s more to listening than hearing what is spoken

Good advice is more precious than 1 million gold tokens

True love is priceless and rare

It’s something to be handled with very much care

Sometimes love’s hard to gain; always the easiest to lose

It is not something to ever abuse

Words are easier to say than actions do

Actions are what truly define you

Anyone can speak of what they do not know

But true feelings and intelligence actions show

What truly defines you

To thine ownself be true

Reviews

[Distant horizons]

This would have taken me forever to even come near what you have portrayed here. I, as quite an introspective kinda person, am amazed that you have the ability to portray in your words, both introspection and clarity of what surrounds you, crisply and clearly, yet still find the goldilocks formula. Not too little, not too much. Just right. Always love finding a write that I get jealous of that I understand completely, but would have serious bother conveying as effortlessly as you have done here. That's not to say much thought and hard work went into it, just that you make it seem effortless. Amazingly well written.