About the things that to you have meant
Something worth acquiring time well spent
Don't give up your self for others hell bent
On describing the you they wanted to be
The angst and the ire of what they achieve
Don't listen to hustler's with trick laced sleeves
Keep your mind safe and centered to receive
The every day rations you've kept in your mind
For surviving the difficulties others leave behind
To wear you down gradually over spans of time
While they shuffle and deal your one and only life
In a stacked deck in a game you don't play
Leave them grasping the straws that would enslave
Your thoughts to a grind stone that they alone made
To be hope's demise on every given day
You open your eyes thankful for more to live
Knowing that inside you there's so much to give
To people you know who deserve the ideas
You tend to daily to encourage and lift
Them when they're troubled to ease their minds
A hand to lend helpful to others over time
At any given moment when they've lost their smile
If only to keep them company for a while
The human inside you is more than enough
To be all enduring when circumstances are tough
Without being desecrated by heckles from
Worries that weary the mind when it's roughed
Into believing that no one would care
About the better thoughts you've gathered over years
To be your faithful companions to cheer
You and others through life's unseen snares
Keep yourself centered in things that you know
Are good for your thinking and harbor control
Over burdens that weigh on your mindful soul
Allow your life to matter to you as you go
From one waking dream into another
Where every day ideas build up and gather
In abundance to shelter you from the chatter
About things you know are just meant to shatter
The you who has lived learning life's patterns
In waking affirming to do and think better
Than yesterday's version of what was gathered
To sift to believe to discard or to tether
Thoughts into actions to achieve what you'd rather
See in your life on a day to day basis
Without giving up or in to the masses
Who categorize lives through rose colored glasses
Heaping our lives into these those but misses
Individual choices and preferences in time
Where what you believe is thoughtful combined
Into your lives for achievements to find
That your dreams are not wasted dreaming about life
Jade Jaspers
