Early Rising

“The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer…. When I wake to see that it’s light out already, I feel the world has started without me.”
(Terri Guillemets)

 

The dark still reigns outside
Stillness fills my mind
Desire stirs in my heart
The first light approaches steadily
It dawns on me
The force within
Animating
The light appears in the dark
Ideas fill my mind
Fire stirs in my heart
The dark steadily vanishing
It dawns on me
The force within
Awakening

 


Rise, Dear One.

Hard Times

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” (Maya Angelou)

What is life
If not a cycle
Between

Calm and storm
Calm and storm
And in the end
The real joy
Comes when we find
Our way our of the storms
So give the storms their proper place
The teacher, the lesson
Without the hard times
Who would you be
Today?