Don't say. . .that you don't have
enough  time left in your life
because you have  exactly the
same number of hours per day
that were given to Bill Gates,
Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein,
and Thomas Edison.

Don't say. . .that you are alone
because if you can make friends
with yourself you will never be
alone.

Don't say. . .that you have felt
everything that you are going to
feel and from here on out you are
not going to feel anything new
but only lesser versions of what
you have already felt because you
feel that you can't survive the
reality of the past.

Don't say. . .that you can't dance
for laughter or dance for tears
and that you won't dance for
hopes and dance for screams
because we are the dancers and
we create our dreams.

Know how important it is to
dream and realize that you can't
do something if you can't imagine
it, so dream your dreams.
                                                 Jon York    2017