Today I Rise

Today I Rise

When I'm tired of all the things around me in my life, I rise

When only the negative aura surrounds me and tries to put me down, I rise

When there's no one there for me even on the worst days, I rise

When there are bullies at school talking bad about me, I rise

When I've lost the family and people I love, I rise

When I am trying to reach my goal in my life and I fail at times, I rise

When I got fake friends, they lie to me and put me down, I rise

When I'm struggling with my family with the bills and our expenses, I rise

When I hear fighting, cussing, swearing cursing at home, I rise

When I'm heartbroken from a love, I rise

When there are traumatic things that happen to me, I rise

When I get abandoned by people who I thought loved me, I rise

When there are no good influence and only evil around me, I rise

When I'm on the street with no food or shelter, I rise

When I'm in a life or death situation, I rise

When someone I love has a chronic disease I stay strong for them and I rise

When the devil tries to put me down in the worst possible ways, I rise

I rise and stay strong because God helps me rise!!

Are you strong enough to rise?

Keep Digging Your Well

Work. Keep digging your well.

Don't think about getting off from work. 

Water is there somewhere.

Submit to daily practice. 

Your loyalty to that

Is a ring at the door. 

Keep knocking, and the joy inside

Will eventually open a window

and look out to see who's there."

-Rumi

Tagore

Banyan Tree 400 years - Mysore, India

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

I Rise

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise

Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise

Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

(Maya Angelou)

Split The Sack

Why does the soul not fly

when it hears the call?

Why does a fish, gasping on land,

but near the water,

not move back into the sea?

What keeps us from joining the dance

the dust particles do?

Look at their subtle motions

in sunlight.

We are out of our cages

with our wings spread,

yet we do not lift off.

We keep collecting rocks and broken bits

of pottery like children

pretending they are merchants.

We should split the sack

of this culture

and stick our heads out.

Look around.

Leave your childhood.

Reach your right hand up

and take this book from the air.

You do know right from left, don't you?

A voice speaks to your clarity.

Move into the moment of your death.

Consider what you truly want.

Now call out commands yourself.

You are the king. Phrase your question,

and expect the grace of an answer.

(Rumi)

Thank you, Anna! xo