Future Wonderments

Do not just want to say

I want to do

Get out of here

Rise above the darkness

See through the negativity

No, I will not stop here

Life is just too short

To let one obstacle

One wrong doing

One flaw

Wrong place, wrong time

I will not let it hold me back

Only fuels me to be better

To know the in-s and out-s of this world

I will be a Captain

And navigate this world

Like the back of my mind

Failure is only a beginning

A new avenue

I am not perfect

Perfection is a positive illusion

Unreachable

Hence I learn to accept myself

This life

Everything that it has to offer

All that it teaches

That none may ever see or understand

That none may ever surpass

Or take advantage of

 I know despite my hardship

That which cannot kill me only makes me stronger

Good things come to those who wait, prepare, and keep hoping

Guilt, shame, regret only reflect the process of change

The change that is seizing through me

Giving me the strength to once again

Rise from the ashes

Only stronger and better

More compassionate

Because this too shall pass

I shall become the person I strive to be

Seek after that which motivates me

Never lose sight

Or I shall truly then lose myself

By: Amara Van Orden

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” -Mahatma Ghandi

“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” -Henry Ward Beecher

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” -Pericles