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Persona Emergencies

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

New Year’s resolutions are endless, it seems. But, few embody the need for all to take score on the self and accept whatever hard or easy trail it might require you to navigate.

Thursday, January 4, 2024


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Persona Emergencies

 

Everyone has one

Or two

Or…

 

But whichever is in play today,

There are situations requiring

You reassess the persona you’re relying on.

 

Does kindness drive your actions?

Do you project a loving or crippled heart?

Will your imagination serve you?

Can forgiveness be your focus?

 

To remain untainted by society’s indolent attitude

Is to harness and hold tight the reins of purpose,

To know that without diligence,

Aspirations remain the province of others.

 

One’s public face should never become a lie,

For representation of self

Requires willingness to respect,

Admire,

And preserve

What you have created of yourself,

Regardless of the weakness/strength balance.

 

Consider…

 

It’s easier to let your being disintegrate

Than accept we are equipped to overcome most anything

We merely have to call upon that inner self

Regardless of how deep one might have to dig.

 

 

 



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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on January 5, 2024
What you are recommending here can be a tall order to many people in this day and age. Most people now live for externals and have little sense of, or control over what may be going on in the "inner self", a concept no doubt alien to many people. And yet, your advice is sound: it is only the inner self that can set us aright in the end. The outer self will perish with the rest of the world.

Reviewed by Diana Legun
Reviewed on January 4, 2024
How pertinent, how positive, how energized is this offering from you, Odin. I like the image, the magnitude of the image portraying the weight of the world upon one solitary individual, but the image showing the straightness of body, the silohette (sp?) depicting a resolved stance to be in the ‘happening.’ Your writing speaks of that very same thing, but with a tender gracefulness. I’m not an advocate of organized religion, so this is an agnostic prayer in my eyes. Every single like of it. One to memorize. Lines 5 & 6 “There are situations…..” are short enough for me to remember — a mantra for the days ahead, but mostly for ‘now.’. Thank you Odin :) ~~ djl


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