Read This Before You Die

It's ok to float

Heal up and push through

But today isn't for quitting

Happen to your movement

Birth the fight and spend it

You'll make new ways

Without the people that came with you

They're busy on their own

Someday is now

Somebody is you

You are all you get

For your entire life

Always thinking you have more

And then one day there won't be

And you'll have lived a life brimming with existence

Or filled with excuses for why you didn't

What are you using this for?

The world doesn't owe you

Or own you

This stage was here before you

Ok, so you've had time to figure out what hurts

Or that you can be

There's. More. Ground to work

Push it over

Keep the mind moving through it

You've come by it honestly

Even if you don't land well

Take a few breaths and grow

Keep growing!

More today than yesterday

As much as you feel you can stand

Plant everything you can

Even if you won't be around to watch it grow

Sleep it off, or year it off

Drop your shadow

Start over

Ball up, and then stand up

Keep the shadow if it helps

Show yourself

Today has its ways of demanding your presence

Keep digging. There's more to give

Don't be afraid to bite at what's keeping you there

Repave it, rework it

This is it

This is all you get

This is your reminder

Stop comparing your miracle to everyone else's brick wall

Today isn't for quitting

Heal up and push through

Happen to your movement

Birth the fight

You are alive

What a thing to be alive

To be anything at all

While the piano plays

And the money gets counted

And the pain gets folded into gratitude

Gets folded into your day

Everything. Has. A turn

You earned this

You are a time machine

The echo of your ancestors

Always on the way, and enough

Read this before you die

This is it, right here

This is all we get

There's nothing else

You are it, in this moment

Pay attention

Be kind, to yourself

Follow your own map

Wake up and keep trying