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Creating One's Own Reality

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

To know oneself seems clear when we overcome the formidable challenge needing to be understood; arguably, we create our own reality. Yet, many would retreat, given the most obstinate challenge faces us in the mirror every day. (image by pinterest)

Tuesday, January 21, 2020


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Creating One’s Own Reality

So…
What do you do,
You who rush to be somewhere,
Knowing others clamor to jump ahead,
To be there waiting to push you back?

What do you do,
You whose dreams remain tenuous,
Perhaps without the courage of risk,
Whose narrow window of time ticks backward
For fear of the future,
Who needs what others wish to prevent,
To stand upon your own weathered peak?

Inclement passage need not be feared,
For the route only you know
Traverses through your own created clouds,
Revealing sunlight you also create
Above the storms no one else can own except you

As you create your own reality.

 

Such is living a life that is yours alone.



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Reviewed on January 23, 2020
No doubt, Odin, that what you have written is absolutely true. Your writing is fabulous!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on January 22, 2020
We all live in our own little world, within the world around us. And it's in our own little world where creativity is born.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on January 21, 2020
There is a case to be made, that you have made in this poem, that there are two realities, the one reality that surrounds us and the one reality that lies within us. As you say: "Above the storms no one else can own except you // as you create your own reality."


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