A Time and a Place

There's a time and a place
Where hopelessness lives
in the deepest of heartache
and the moment of fear.


Fear of a life that is never enough
Fear that your best will not measure up
Anxiety hits and paralyzes but
What is the result of just giving up?


The life that you fear?
Of losing it all?
It becomes your truth
And we accept it cuz


We forget to trust in hope and a future
We flounder around unable to believe that
Our past is the past
And it does not have to define us


We can understand our thoughts and actions
We can choose to stop and turn around
We can decide to write a new story
We can seek to find help when we stray
We can fight to survive another day


There's a time and a place
Where hope can grow
If we give it permission to live.
It will fill us with calm
and a deep sense of peace
If we give it permission to be.




That's what I got today.