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Impermanence

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

Everywhere one turns, options are vying for your attention relative to making you happy. Most of it BS. (Image by etherealculture)

Tuesday, January 14, 2020


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Impermanence

 

Fervently we cling,

Holding onto what seems worth

Holding onto security

Only to discover

Nothing is forever

Everything is now

Security has become ennui for many

 

Why, asks the child in us all?

 

Perhaps it’s the stuff

We think permanent

 

Perhaps the relationship

We think a soul mate

 

Perhaps a promotion

We think economic game over

 

But…

 

To seek out the truly long-lasting rewards

One has to first go inside

Truly find that honesty principal

Stop deluding oneself

 

Fame

 

Fortune

 

Consider…

 

Aspirations long often ignore the real you

 

Maybe…

 

You merely need to find the means to calm your deluded definition of success

Breathe

Stretch

Lift

Walk

Allow

 

There’s so much we deny ourselves

So obsessed with achieving what others tell us is the goal

 

But for whom?

 

Yeah…

 

The goal of who you want me to be?

 

F*** it!

 

Happiness is just being a person of integrity

Being who you are

Not what others may want you to be.

 

Impermanence

Is dependent on you ignoring these thoughts

These options

These choices

 

Many need to stop being the choice made by others.

 

Contentedness,

Acceptance,

Caving,

 

Uh-uh.

 

Finding the way to the top of one’s own mountain

Has to be your way.

 

Happiness is possible.

 

 

 

 



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Reviewed on January 19, 2020
Bravo on this excellent piece of work, Odin! Yes! Be you for that's who you are!! Love love love it!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on January 15, 2020
In order to be happy, we have to be happy with ourselves first. I find it amazing, how many people fall into a rut, and then become comfortable being there.

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on January 14, 2020
Sound advice, so many people are operating on the assumptions that others are feeding them. As you say in the poem, nothing stays permanent, only what we see within ourselves as any permanence.


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