Believe by Sue Williams 💫 #BraveWrites #poetry #poem #StarfishClub #Coffeeandachat @coffeeandachat1 #nationalpoetryday

• Sue, stand up, stand up!
• Be bold, be strong!
• Your talent, on world stage, truly does belong!
• You are a beacon, shining bright,
• Birthed to emerge, grow, and shine your inner light!
• It is a crime to leave talent, dusty on a rickety, hidden shelf,
• Set out your stall;
• allow true expression of your amazing inner self.
• Surely, you will experience some discomfort as you stretch,
• far better than staying a self-defeating, self-pitying little wretch?
• Rather, as you experience movement, create life-changing shifts,
• you will, newly emboldened, dare to share your gifts!
• Life is truly meant for us to live; by our own example, given
• To those, like us, who have sometimes been
• Squashed, ignored, or diligently working;
• self-e(acing, behind a screenOf uniformity; water poured on burning
• *re,Quashed down, made damp squib of all passion and desire.
• And, as others bask in your new golden glow,
• It helps for them, also to know,
• That they have their own miracles to perform,
• Whether on a stage, or as more often is the norm,
• In their own families and communities,
• through their daily life and deeds,
• Do great work; sow and nurture the seeds
• Of positivity, purposefulness and joy,
• With which we all entered this world to buoyUp ourselves and others,
• manifest the birth right of our mothers,
• As we mix with friends, many others,who enter into our life’s stratosphere.
• All add dark and shade, maybe cause us to shed a tear,
• Perhaps of joy or sometimes pain, so, ultimately, of our own truth, understanding we gain.
• Right here and now, we need to show,
• Through heartfelt determination,strength of courage,
• We all have the power to foster our own abilities, to grow;
• Achieve our birth right to succeed; root out the dreaded weed
• That with stranglehold choked downour well-intentioned schemes,
• Left us struggling with dashed hopes, and broken,once beautiful dreams.
• So meaning-full, join us to create, an interwoven, brilliant picture to which all can relate!
• As one voice, stand up and state:
• “We are here to live mindfully in this life, we choose creativity, positive intent over unrewarding strife
• and as we choose to change how we ourselves perceive, in our own dreams, our legacy, our power, we truly believe.

© all rights reserved to the author Sue Williams 2012

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