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#mentors
The passing of passion and wisdom finding agreement The strength of a mind Meeting at crossroads Without having a guide Waiting, your mentors Explaining passions meaning
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Feb 13
Feb 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM UTC
Milestone
Blazed is the trail made by their mistakes   The high road created for all our sakes   Explorers of lands that were once uncharted   Now the cartographers of the paths they started   We are the proverbial parchment upon which they sketch   Vicariously imbuing their wisdom within each etch   The end of their journey is where we begin   For the trail ahead must be blazed again
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Feb 2, 2020
Feb 2, 2020 at 12:02 PM UTC
Mentors
You are commanding the presence of an audience of children Who do not, for a couple of hours, feel like children. They feel like lightning bolts, and lovers, Congregates of "The Broken Axe Handle", Even if they hardly show it. You’re telling them their own story For which they haven’t yet learned how to form the words. And after it all, The crowd moving in a waking dream cloud, You come into my focus, And you practically whisper, “Seeing you there, you made me feel Centered” And I felt humbled by the honesty. What a surprise to have such a weighted job!   How impossible it is to take crumb of credit For the beauty of your poetry! I, entirely teenaged with endogenous anonymity, Someone’s fulcrum!   In a decade since, I, (un)entirely grown and still ontologically unknown, Still live your language, Still aim to be the rock or The hook on which to hang a hat. Even when I don’t think I can Even when I don’t know I am, You make me feel daily that In just receiving someone’s truth, Eyes up, I can make the return to be Someone’s somebody.
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Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019 at 11:08 PM UTC
Centered (A Thank You Note to Buddy Wakefield)
if i write a million billion zillion words a day will some sound nice? will they work out right? will my mind create a masterpiece some night? or will brilliance elude me like camoflauged prey? can greatness be chanced upon or do i have to beg for it? do i have to pray? can statistical likelihood produce from sheer quantitative mass some lyrical combination to surpass mere mediocrity rise straight to first class? or do i gotta go back and ask the teachers and mentors i left in the past? i took off too fast ignored their words and advice bout how to think how to write how to talk how to act how to not be enticed by distractions in life how to not roll the dice when the odds are too stacked how to work **** hard to stay on track how to make smart goals if you're itching to rise by hitchin your ride to the business of guys and girls with vision that's what i was taught what i heard what i learned what i forgot (then recalled) what i once spurned to spark my downfall but i have returned and rediscovered myself remembered the others who raised me who made me my parents my brothers all those who inspired all those who required daily sacrifice to feed the fire to push me higher to bring on success to make me my best which proves to the rest if you don't perspire chance don't mean **** now we gotta admit we all need an assist but if you want greatness you gotta work for it
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 12:25 PM UTC
chanced upon greatness
The winds of change came. She guided me through fierce storms. Now the sun rises.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 8:19 PM UTC
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