<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559000" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Praise Of Looking It All In The Eye</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They say, -Leave the past behind, <br>If you want to re-invent the future, <br>Don't be too enamoured of your 'story'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I say, -Honor past trauma, <br>Cry all the tears it warrants, <br>Take note of the softness of heart <br>It imparts. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the time is ripe, only, <br>Your will thank it and leave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Here is where it becomes hard: <br>You hover, almost gone, <br>Wondering it you have <br>Left something behind.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take your time... <br>No necessity to <br>Step desperately into your future <br>Join it seamlessly <br>To your old story. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Appreciatively hear <br>Your old, low notes. <br>They are beautiful too <br>As is sweetest falsetto. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your new dream you'll create <br>After honoring your past <br>And discovering the demons, <br>They work for you! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">See them as angels <br>With the most terrible <br>Assignments. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Metaphorically speaking, <br>In your story) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you wouldn't be reading <br>This thoughtfully <br>If you were not about to <br>Step into the Captain's chair, <br>Understanding you are also co-author <br>Of your Star Trek episode <br>(Where no man has gone before!) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your experience is Sacred. <br>Otherwise, in calmest mood, <br>Not encumbered by pain or fear <br>You would not have <br>Chosen this vehicle, <br>This embryo, <br>To enter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Holding on to the past too long <br>Is falling into an abyss! <br>But walking away from the past too soon <br>Means its lessons......teachings.....gifts..... <br>Will unwisely, be missed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So give your lessons due diligence <br>Don't jump ship, leaving 'Incompletes', </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then graduate, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sadder but Wiser'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is the ground for <br>Planting joy, <br>That does not shift, <br>Despite how the winds <br>Of Fortune <br>May drift.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jan+Freundschuh">Jan Freundschuh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559000" data-title="In Praise Of Looking It All In The Eye de Jan Freundschuh" data-description="They say, -Leave the past behind, If you want to re-invent the future, Don't be too enamoured of your 'story'. But I say, -Honor past trauma, Cry all the tears it warrants, Take note of the softness of heart It imparts. When the time is r..."></div> </div> </div>

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