black, and unmisted

i am
black, and
exact.

no notions.
no mist.
no hail.
no judgement.

just plain, ol’
black.

whatever i hear
i swallow.
the same moment.
just as it is,
unmisted.

Merciless

it’s a lonely thing
living with
yourself
protecting your
breakable heart

but it doesn’t
matter
whether you are there
with me or not

what is the difference

the life was
merciless,
and is still merciless.

Black or white

It’s either black or white.

If you’re in the grey area to begin with, you’ve already lost.

2 things

Fear and Laziness.

These are the two things that hold me back.

These are the two things that hold you back.

These are the two things that hold EVERYBODY back.

From anything that you want to do.
That you want to be.

Fear of rejection or laziness of execution is stopping you from winning.
Its either both or one of these things for sure.

That’s it.

It’s not easy

“I’m broken.”
She said.
“I’m hurt. Afraid.”

He looked into her eyes,
those beautiful eyes
that made the stars jealous
of the way they
shone

and said

“I’ve never met
a strong person
with an easy past.”

Better, not harder

Whenever we come up short, we hear people say ‘try harder’.

But after a while, we run out of energy to keep pushing on.

There’s no more energy left to try ‘harder’.

Sooner or later, we all come up empty.

What if instead of trying ‘harder’, we try ‘better’.

Take the path we’ve been afraid of all this time.

Spend the time to learn a whole new approach.

Because ‘better’ just might be the answer when ‘harder’ doesn’t seem to work out.