Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Step By Step

California rainbow
(photo by Art Durand Photography)


Step By Step
2/23/09

When it boils down to it
advances are made slowly,
in small increments it seems,
though there are occasional leaps
that often land us in territory
unfamiliar, disconcerting, feeling dislocated
from sensibilities that keep us grounded,
able to make sense, and embrace change,
call it reaching one's 'upper limit'
wholly unprepared for shifting tides,
the repercussions, running insecurities,
this is when we must go inward,
find some dependable inner knowing,
do the little things we are capable of
effecting in our life with noticeable acts
which carry sense of empowerment,
often seen as a new creation,
a reorganized home, projects done,
some departure from usual reality
as witness to progress moving somewhere,
and only your value of it matters
even if others judge you negatively
saying mistakes have been made,
or you are a loser at the core,
take heart, champion your own dreams
then consistently, step by step, live them.

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