You can't be down
Over one failure
When you've made history.

Many people don't even get in the same light
Once
So remember that when you feel down over the failure to reach a goal
That your influence took its toll
On the rest
and on the competitors
People won't see the failure, but rather the journey you had to achieve the impossible.

Last day in November
A day to culminate thoughts on souls
All souls departed remembered
For many are the legacies left behind

Legacies of those dearly beloved
once seen but now no more
Thanked for their existence
Loved for the links they left behind

Links thus born out of feelings
stemming from day to day dealings
Many are those thus gone by
Love connections they left behind

Gratitude tugs gently at the heart
of legacies, links and connections
breathing life in the present
breeding yet another to be left behind

Last day in November
A day to culminate thoughts on souls
All souls departed remembered
For many are the legacies left behind

Jack Kerouac give
me your mind so that I may
live your legacy

In our hands
Lay the power
To create
To write
To define
What we can do

Our paths intertwine
Seeking what we ought to seek
Hoping to get there someday
And put our marks in stone

Now is the time
To run
To chase
To dream
In our hands
Lay the power

Cleave, sunder from the root
Spilled forth on the soil
Naked
Afraid

Rive, render from the pod
Scorched from the sun
Cracked
Bleeding

Shake, dither from the soul
Scarred on torment
Numbed
Immobilized

Breathe, utter the words
Cried from memories

Another dawn
Another dusk
Another night
Another cycle

a thousand years from now exists
a world that thrums purely on the energies of nature.
a thousand years from now exists
a world whose stories you now
create.