There are no grand revelations
No great message for the world
Nothing to shake your worldview
There is only life
And how we react to it
Will we get lost in the chaos of daily responsibility
And miss all of life that surrounds us?
Or will we take time to notice
The people, the earth that give us life?
We are designed to work, to create
To build and to destroy
But not only that
We are designed to relate
To laugh and to smile
To get angry and to be sad
To emote is to be human
Yet we seek to drown the emotions
Desiring to ignore the discomfort
We distract with alcohol, ***, gambling
Drugs and work, shopping and even religion
Time passes, we become dependent
Eventually, we know no other way
To cope with how we feel -
About ourselves, about life
About impending death -
We go back to the well
Day after day
Hoping, praying, that today will be the day
That peace arrives in a bottle
But only distraction
We spiral further
Shame creeps in
Fear grows
We isolate
Show them not our flaws
But only our victories
Our vapid victories
We hide the truth
Reveal what we believe is the best of us
It’s a lie
The best of us is what we hide
The best of us is our battle
Our fears and our scars
The best of us is how we’ve grown
And what we’ve learned
When will we accept that there is no joy
Without the pain that preceded it?
When will we know, deep in our souls,
That ALL are broken
That we are not alone
That we need each other?
There is no honor in pretend
No bravery in hiding
The world is cruel, true,
For insecurity runs rampant
Have the courage to reveal
No grand revelation
Just how you’ve responded to life