Can't sit still
Can't lay low
Can't breathe deep
Can't look straight
Can't be me
Can't be her
Determined to change
Don't know what to
Want to be special
In my own eyes
Want to be unique
Want to be one of a kind.
Need some things
To clear in my head
For my mind to think right
And not jump around.
FOCUS
Ingenuity.
Charisma.
Asertiveness.
Can one learn these
As one learns to read?
Need to give up
The need to be right
To be ablr to say
I don't know
Without a sting in my heart.
Need to accept other's anger
Without walking away
With tears in my eyes.
Need to forgive myself
For mistakes of the past
And learn to move on again
Without looking back.
FOCUS.
Have to learn more.
Have to be more.
Have to not follow the crowd.
Have to speak less
Have to share less
Have to not want approval.
Have to stop dreaming
Of things I can't change
Have to stop wanting
The things I can't have.
FOCUS.
Swim up the stream
Not look away to the banks
Stop playing safe
Eyes on the goal
Faith in the heart
That to all things
There's a time
There's a place
There's a purpose.
To know that as one day ends
Another begins
And with it
An endless array
Of infinite possibilities
To try again
The very thing
In which I failed yesterday.
FOCUS.
Do not accept defeat.
Draw conclusions and rise again
Stronger in will
Stouter of heart.
Ever more determined
Ever more resolute.
FOCUS.
Follow paths to their end
No matter how difficult
They may seem.
FOCUS.
Be whole with choices
For they are the ones
That got me this far.
FOCUS.
Don't be afraid
If I take a step back
Use the space
Between those steps
To re-think.
To evaluate.
To estimate.
And use as a stepping-stone
For the next 2 levels.
FOCUS.
Keep your eye on the target.
Do not get lost
In the void of self-pitty.
Do not fall down into the pit
That's behind.
Keep moving forward.
One may stumble,
One may fall to the ground
And crawl
But forward.
FOCUS.
I AM THE ONLY ONE
IN CONTROL OF MY LIFE.
I AM THE ONLY ONE
WHO'S HANDS HOLD MY FUTURE.
I AM THE ONLY ONE
WHO CAN PUSH ME FORWARD.
Focus.