that I believe heart and soul
in the power of perseverance.
I like not giving up,
but that does not define me.
I used to believe that anything
worth doing involved struggle.
Love always had to have challenges.
My old ideologies
were run and gun.
We make things unintentionally harder
for ourselves with unhelpful habits,
and burdensome mindset mistakes.
Out-of-whack expectations:
There's no such thing as perfect success, no such thing as perfect failure.Is your friend not instantly texting you back?
Not everything is about me.
New words for old desires,
and every birthday card I have kept.
The Grim Reaper has got nothing
on the newspaper,
and both of those vessels have nothing on me...any longer.