Tag: being yourself
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Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear
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Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear She sits engaged in a battleBeneath the shadow of her own face,Slowly conceding to her own demonsBrought back by their blows, crushed beneath their weight. She wonders what’s the use in tryingWhen defeat has already been secured?For what’s left of the light is dyingAnd her…
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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion
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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion Can eyes hide the riversOf pain that flow inside?Can ears mute the quaking, shakingOf a heart that boomsWith thunders of broken dreams?There’s a storm raging inside the manHe doesn’t wish the world to see,So he puts on his business attire each morningAnd paints…
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Accepting and Being Comfortable With Our Weaknesses
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“So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My…
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Finding Myself – A Poem About the Journey of Self Discovery
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Being and finding yourself is hard. Each one of us is a unique individual, blessed with unique talents and gifts. But each of us also longs for acceptance – to feel wanted, needed, and understood by people. Having the courage to be true to ourselves and discover the individual God created us to be usually…
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The Neglected Lover – A Love Poem About Self Love and Loving Yourself
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Sometimes it is easy to love your neighbor, but much more difficult to have self love. Self loathing and self-hatred are real problems for some people. You would never treat others or hold them to the same standards as you do yourself, so why do you keep doing it? You’re just as deserving of love as…
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Introspection – A Poem
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Stop chasing trouble. It doesn’t follow you without an invitation to walk through your door. So why do you seem so surprised when it uses your heart to mop the floor? Can you simply not see the signals? Can you really not recognize the signs? Or are you just unable to face yourself in the…
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Fortified
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These castle walls have been built by the tears and pain of my own heart. Each stone carefully constructed and sealed in layers of mortar to make sure there are no breaches, that no enemy reaches my inner domain, no intruder is able to sneak and slip between the cracks. I’ve built these walls strong…
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Living Happy Now
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It’s no secret that more people are unhappy than ever before. Unhappy with their lives, unhappy with their careers, unhappy with their spouse, and most of all unhappy with themselves. Happiness has become some intangible emotion that we are always reaching for, yet never able to firmly grasp. As soon as you think you have…
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Being Authentically You
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Not only do I think he’s right, I would argue that it’s even harder now than it was during his lifetime. No matter where we turn there are influences everywhere trying…
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