#improve
"All roads lead to Rome"
“No outcome will change”
Not if I don’t try, I won’t cry,
I won’t quite, I won’t fail
I’ll rewrite my outcome,
I’ll reconstruct the road,
I’ll write my own outcome
“You can try but you will fail”
I won’t fail, I won’t hesitate,
I will never stop, quite, falter,
I’ll repeat it over and over,
I’ll learn, fail, and improve
"But all roads lead to Rome"
Not if I try to change it,
Not if I start from Rome
“You’ll still end in Rome”
No, I won’t.
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM UTC
I will not wish the time away
But when it's time to go
I hope I wake up on that day
Without ever getting to know
I hope I leave a thousands lives
Improved and without strife
And so I hope
The end arrives
Amidst the joy of life
Jun 6, 2025
Jun 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM UTC
love in my throat, caught stuck, then swallowed--
dulled razor blades descend, hit my stomach,
and dissolve into honeyed drink that soothes me.
it is rough to start, as we may all know,
and eases itself into our core when we let the right one in.
and i did, without question. we may fight, sometimes,
about the silliest things, but that fire
is what heats my heart when i'm at my lowest.
she's beautiful beyond words, and sweet and cute and kind,
but never tell her that or she'll curse you with her evil
wizard magicks.
i love what she is and what she isn't--
patient (no), passionate (yes), and that she cares
about me in a way that invalidates my previous hurt.
i worry that i won't be good enough, that she'll find someone better
for her, or that i'll do something stupid to ruin it all.
but the essence i've consumed by living teaches me to improve,
compels me, not just for her sake but mine.
love is teaching me, warm honeyed drink in me, and i listen.
all that i can say after this is: thank you.
Sep 21, 2024
Sep 21, 2024 at 10:49 PM UTC
Improved
Build the car with thicker metal
Give it a bigger engine more power
Beef up the brakes and gear box
Improve the other things
You’ll get an improved model
Looking like the old one
But with state of the art
Features full of benefits
Ride drive like the winds
Nobody and nothing to stop you
A souped up Olds Mobile
Give it some on the road
Ride to meet the Devil
Feb 4, 2023
Feb 4, 2023 at 8:50 PM UTC
there’s a seed I planted a while ago.
I have watered it every day,
some days more, some days less.
there have been heat waves and thunderstorms,
heavy rains and snow.
and as the seasons change,
the flower has become stronger,
it continues to grow.
and as I look at my roots today,
I realise I‘m no longer just a seed,
here I am, in full bloom, indeed.
- gio
Jun 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021 at 5:32 AM UTC
1. healing (noun)
the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again.
"the journey of healing is long and painful
but the end is worth the hurt."
2. healing (adjective)
tending to heal; therapeutic.
"self love was all the healing i needed."
healing is a path that not all are brave enough to walk.
one cannot be pushed or forced into healing.
they must make the choice for themselves.
the first step starts with
Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 10:38 PM UTC
The hypocrisy of your thoughts
Remembering your own flaws
Tear yourself apart so often
When you can't even quit your ego
Out of relationships, you run
Messed up with your own insecurities
You want someone to find you perfect
Unable to eradicate your own negativities
You wish someone could ignore your defect
How can you expect love from someone else
When your own life is on the broken shelf?
You wonder if anybody could ever love you
When you cannot even love yourself
While you see people smoking and drinking
You think they're being so cool
Comparing to them, you think you're dumb
Unaware that they're the biggest fools
Tired up with your own challenges
You want someone to think you're strong
Unable to even prove yourself
You wish nobody assumes you wrong
How can you expect love from someone else
When your own life is on the broken shelf?
You wonder if anybody could ever love you
When you cannot even love yourself
You see people who inspire you
You watch everything they dare
Yet you think you can't do any better
It is in you what you're looking out there
Torn up with your own failures
You want somebody to appreciate you
Unable to even accept the challenges
You wish to be daring like quite a few
How can you expect love from someone else
When your own life is on the broken shelf?
You wonder if anybody could ever love you
When you cannot even love yourself
-By Sarah Khan
Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020 at 10:35 AM UTC
Take me home
Whether the weather is harsh or long
Place me down
Six feet underground
Pray for me while I decompose
Raise your voice and strike the force
Loose the chains
To prepare for changes
Mar 22, 2020
Mar 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM UTC
Smoking until struggles fade to black
Leave for awhile but always come back
To the dust collected in my nooks
Heard by crannies between books
I fear none of problems non-existent replies
The gaze from inanimate objects eyes
Control the balance of my silent possessions
They swirl in the wake of my useless expressions
I stand firm amidst the hum of talking nothingness
My hands like swords in my confessed stress
World is small
Yet this planet so large
My fight I falter as troubles barge
No orders conquer my will to go on
Am a survivor of each passing dawn
Home is battlefield in which I slumber
My skills adapt and grow in number
They are put to test by life's curveballs
Believe in what is at the top of these walls
Waving freedom with my face in the mud
Death nobly boiling in my blood
As I try to improve presence bit by bit
Rings distant from where I sit
I continue forth hoping better is what tomorrow will be
No way to tell
I guess I'll have to wait and see
Mar 13, 2020
Mar 13, 2020 at 2:57 AM UTC
The higher you climb, the further you’ll fall,
With a mindset like that,
you will never stand tall.
What you should instead remember,
when you fight against time,
is that the best view
comes after the hardest climb
Mar 8, 2020
Mar 8, 2020 at 8:05 AM UTC
Pull back from me to
clear through your clutter
Only guidance can be offered for
the effects we have on ourselves
and others
Observe our actions from above
as a higher state helps to adjust
Step up from who and where you are
to be the change you want to make
Assess, review and conclude
For only we can improve our fate
Feb 2, 2020
Feb 2, 2020 at 7:03 AM UTC
Can you recycle
It's the same as repurpose
Improve with your change
Brian Hill - 2020 # 21
Jan 21, 2020
Jan 21, 2020 at 10:15 AM UTC
for all the doubts and second thoughts
for all the failures and the loss
know that there is a reason
you are still here
know that despite it all
you overcame your fears
for falling short and falling behind
for living in the dark
and yet seeing the light
for countless nights
knocked down on your knees
and yet in the morning standing with peace
for thinking you've been buried
underground for so long
for discovering that actually
you've been planted all along
you need to see, you have to know
honey, you were made to grow
Dec 27, 2019
Dec 27, 2019 at 7:53 AM UTC
Broken sunglasses
Sitting on my dresser
If I can find the part
Out there somewhere
I can fix them
Jeans too small
In a drawer in my dresser
If I can lose some weight
With diet and exercise
I can wear them
An unframed print
Waiting for a frame on my dresser
It was for a friend
That I don’t talk to anymore
But I could
That dresser is full of “if”s
It’s got drawers and drawers
Of “should’ve”s and “could’ve”s
Things I need to do
And fix.
Dec 1, 2019
Dec 1, 2019 at 10:40 PM UTC
Be the best of you
As much as you are willing to engage and develop
One's self.
You are willing to get many ideas
Or becoming a researcher in your life.
Always willing to listen
Always willing to learn anything.
And always be a fighter of go-to-go target
In your self.
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019 at 10:12 PM UTC
Patient-Endurance is the virtue I need
when striving to improve the situations
which Destiny has brought me,
for while the situations
are not yet improved
I need to patiently endure.
Jul 30, 2019
Jul 30, 2019 at 1:31 AM UTC
I accept
my mistakes
as in the past;
and in the present-moment
I strive to improve my self
so I don’t repeat these mistakes
in the future.
Jul 25, 2019
Jul 25, 2019 at 10:59 PM UTC
I never blame myself:
I accept
what has happened
in the past
as Destiny,
over which I have no control.
I focus
on improving my self
in the present-moment
to achieve
the wisdom and virtue
to improve my situation
to increase my joy and happiness.
Jul 25, 2019
Jul 25, 2019 at 1:16 AM UTC
When bitterness bites my heart
with anger, resentment, hurt
and a sense of unjust treatment,
what should I do?
Does it soothe my heart
to accept what has happened
as Destiny?
Does it soothe my heart
to strive to discover
what I can do
to improve my situation
to increase my joy and happiness?
Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 9:24 PM UTC
Is the challenge of living
to build a Kingdom of Heaven
here on Earth?
By striving to discover
in our current situation
opportunities for joy and happiness,
and striving to discover
opportunities to improve our current situation
to increase our joy and happiness?
Jul 23, 2019
Jul 23, 2019 at 3:33 AM UTC
i wonder sometimes,
if ill ever be okay,
if this felling of sadness
will ever go away
if my smile would be real
and the gleamer in my eyes will return
if ill ever love myself again
is it too bad to hope for things to get better,
because they say that before the light comes the dark
is it okay to cry a little forever
i wish i knew what has been planed.
so ill hope for the best,
try and keep my hopes high,
fake a smile every day
till it becomes real at last.
Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019 at 12:08 AM UTC
Like an unfinished puzzle
You will continue to find the missing pieces all over the place
And even if there is just one piece of the puzzle missing it may show up one day
Or you will have to go out and find it yourself
May 27, 2019
May 27, 2019 at 1:03 AM UTC