We struggle through life, through the stress, through the strife, it cuts like a knife but onward we travel crawling through the gravel while watching our lives unravel.

As we go on the prowl, on our faces there's a scowl and a feeling of throwing in the towel.

While a breakthrough seems out of sight thinking, how can I make things right. Suddenly it comes piercing through the night, a beacon of light, it continues to get bright.

It was a heck of a scare you got an answer to your secret prayer, knowing you were delivered out of your despair, even a nightmare.

So let's stop poking out our chests, boasting I'm the best when we know we've been Blessed. Instead of flapping our chops, Give Him, His Props.

Then the next time your life is on cruise control and you fall into a manhole or find yourself up a pole just slow your roll.

Because whether you're on a mountain top or in a sweatshop, before you call the cops or start flapping your chops.

Remember, He can remove all the stops. It's just proper to Give Him, His Props.

I am appreciating this process, and awareness

a feeling without definition

a knowing that cant be expressed

They say there are ways to cope and writing is one but all we wish for is the cure. In the storm and chaos of everything summer, we only wish to smell the roses a little while longer until the thought of the killer shark takes over our minds leading us to a place where we’re too afraid to swim. I go to the beach and look at the waves only to wish I could dip my sanded feet into the water letting the chills take over me. Anything and everything we’d do just to feel free.

Alive, this word brings some very good vibes. It means you have arrived, a beautiful spirit revived and it needs a high five cause it ain't no jive.

It means you are awake, your life is yours to take, which allows you to have and also eat your cake.

So be alert and with dirt don't flirt but avert even though life may hurt cause you can easily loose your shirt.

For your sake stay awake you'll see some of your so called friends are fake and don't bellyache when you find who you thought was your best bud is a snake, move on because there's so much at stake.

Just be alive, come out of the archives, strive and stay out of overdrive, that will make you take a dive and if you connive you'll be deprived.

You are not here to just survive but thrive and that ain't no jive. BE ALIVE.