poem ~ today

Today
I don't wanna be a grown up
and do what everyone says I must do
to live a life that is successful
and work from 9 to 5 too.

Today
I am openly admitting
I just don't wanna work
I'd rather just write poems
and do Yoga to workout my body's twerks.

Today
I'd like to just sit
and stare at the pool
for the water is calming
when every thing's swirling in my view.

Today 
I embrace this new chapter
even if its just a short phase
and accept sleeping in
when I normally would get out of bed most days.

Today
as I internally wrestle
with these thought in my soul
I can honestly tell you
it's a lot harder then it is cool.

Today 
I again decided
that I don't want to live someone else's dream
even if it has an allure
or an expectation of fulfillment it seems.

Today
it feels really strange for me to just say
that all this feels a bit abnormal
and I hardly know what to do
when I feel this way.

Today
I will listen
to what's going on in my heart
for when you feel a disconnect
this is the place you must start.

Today
I will just acknowledge 
internally how I feel
and let the frustration simmer
so that I don't let my life pass in a glimmer.

Today
I declare
that I want to enjoy the work that I do
and not just because it was something 
that I was trained to do.

Today
I want to do more work
of the things I really want to do
and not just because 
it would be considered grown up like you.


© Misty W Gilbert
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poem ~ what if I showed you

What if I showed you
a bit of my soul,
Would you run from me then
or stay connected as is told?

What if I showed you
the deepest part of me,
Would you be loving
understanding I want you to want me?

What if I showed you
everything I've been through, 
Not as a contest
but so you knew what I knew?

What if I showed you
the real part of me,
Not what everyone says 
for me to show you instead?

What if I showed you
the guts that it takes,
To stand out in the crowd 
when everyone's trying to shoot you back down?

What if I showed you
the courage that's at stake,
That you can just live your life 
without fear of mistakes?

What if I showed you
how to live completely free,
And not stay stuck in
the boxes around you and me?

What if I showed you
that we all have fears,
But it's a choice to expel them
or show them a mirror? 

What if I showed you 
how to breathe into the moment,
And not shut down in tension
that confines you in your aloneness?

What if I showed you
that I love you for you,
And quit acting like
you must change for it to be true?

What if I showed you
there is so much more,
To a life lived in this moment
where nothing else means more? 

What if I showed you
how to love you,
Because this is the greatest thing
you could ever do?

Poem Written By: @mistywgilbert

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poem ~ the wonder

I wonder what it would take
for me to be free,
From everyone's rules
about who I should be.

I wonder what makes it seem
that I have to stay so stuck,
In the expectations of
what all of this means.

I wonder how I can shift
from staying in this box,
To living more in alignment
of what I am and not what I'm not.

I wonder what it would be
to live connected to me,
Instead of spending so much time
worried about connecting to thee.

I wonder how to face
loving myself with more grace,
Beyond just the words
in activity of everything I face.

I wonder what provokes
me to shut down somehow,
When this is the desire
of all of us right now.

I wonder if everyone
did more of this,
How much we would engage
and be happy in the life that is.

Poem Written By: @mistywgilbert

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poem ~ God's Plan

What if the plan 
isn't how to get you 
from here to there,
What if the plan
is he'll be with you
until the end?

What if the plan
isn't one way 
or else,
What if the plan
is to see 
His hand?

What if the plan 
isn't to make 
a perfect life,
What if the plan 
is to strengthen you 
through its vice?

What if the plan
isn't to live
every moment in fear,
What if the plan
is to come 
to freedom this year? 

What if the plan
isn't to never
make a mistake,
What if the plan
is to see 
grace to take?

What if the plan
isn't how 
just to cope, 
What if the plan 
is to have
the same power to hope?

What if the plan 
isn't to have no events 
that make me sad,
What if the plan
is to believe 
I'm not bad?

What if the plan
isn't to
not have a challenge, 
What if the plan 
is to give 
you control of it?

What if the plan 
isn't to make 
you to sit and wait,
What if the plan
requires your
action to expand?

What if the plan 
isn't to feel
regrets in the field, 
What if the plan
is the same
for every man?

What if the plan 
isn't rigid in each choice 
that you make,
What if the plan 
is to choose the path 
that's best for you to take? 

© Misty W Gilbert
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