Forward or backward??!!!

You need love but you abuse it

You need peace but you fight it

You need happiness but you bring pain

You need joy but destroy it

You need to grow but yet crush others

You need new change but still holding on

To old self lifestyle and unworthy memories

Past that crushes you,

Bad memories that abuse you

Mentally, physically and emotionally

Pain that took over your happiness,

By whom did you give it away to?

Happiness comes from within

Why give it away for pain to take control?

For what reason is worth you being unhappy?

In seeking growth,

How will one grow when burdens of all

Are heavy on your shoulders?

Your life becomes miserable

All that lives around you get affected by it

You don’t see it but loved ones feel it

Why not let go?

Why not let go and let God?

Sisters and brothers

Free yourselves from being slaves

Slaves and victims of worry,

Victims of pain

Dwelling and victimizing

By painting future with history

Feeling sorry for yourself

Not knowing and forgetting this is

The best of gift created

Your life…

Filled with talents and skills

Blessings and gifts

Purpose and dreams to fulfill

The beauty it carries

So fruitful, that haters envy it

That the world wants to swallow it

That the devil is jealous of it to destroy

For only just a moment in your life that it happened

That you felt the pain, felt like a failure…

Time to stop… no more feeling sorry for yourselves!

New changes are waiting

I choose the way forward

I live to grow

I live to be

Beyond the sky I will be

Reaching out and touch how I have been touched

From the word, poetry, art in writing

I still stand

I let go, so can you

My history is not my destiny

Your history is not your destiny

Small words yet targets the heart

Dust it off,

Get up

Let go and let God

Make a choice