Act 2

To flip our script at times

Is something we should do

Taking ownership and action

Is the first step back to you

Every person has rackets

A million miles long

Getting pulled into the drift

Singing another person’s song

It’s so easy to blame others

Being the victim of circumstance

Giving power to our fears

Doubting we even have a chance

We’re all wired with various beliefs

DNA and what we’re taught

How life has happened to us

Called stupid never smart

Our past isn’t real

It’s but a story and a million more

It’s anything you make of it

It’s beautiful, or retched gore

Can you feel whether it serves you

Are you powerful or small

At times too close to see

How we can manifest it all

Tiny crevices filled with rage

Or happier thoughts on better days

Words, tears, hurt, fear,

Laughter, passion, joy

These feelings buried so far down

We think they’re safe inside

Safe from taking charge

And living our best lives

But we’re human beings

We’re meant to feel

When the messiness collides

Honesty and breaking through

Old patterns left inside

Letting go of outside opinions

Who, "they'’ think we should be

The rhetoric of dangerous thought

Leaving us everything but free

Yet once we see our truth

Be it good, messy, or sad

The choice is ours to stand as victor

And that is who I know I am

I walk with pride

An open heart

No longer the need to hide

Or to go outside and seek my truth

For I have held it all my life