Mundane

I lie awake, staring at the darkness before me. 

I’m forced into my thoughts as the silence refuses to speak. 

I hear a voice, 

“You’re wasting away in the mundane.”

But I refuse. 

I will take the mundane and fashion it with my hopes, 

And I will tell the mundane, you can be beautiful.  

I will turn this darkness into a home, 

And I will start 

with a candle. 

And I will thank that candle every moment it burns

Because it reminds me darkness is a temporary state. 

When light enters darkness, the darkness is driven out.. 

When darkness enters light, it only makes the light

More beautiful. 

Yes, Mundane, you will be beautiful. 

Fearlessly

Fear, you have stolen too much from me. 

You have caused me to bury my dreams, before I even sleep. 

You have taught me to live my life half alive

Scared of what it would be like to love the whole me. 

You have told me lies, that I turned into truths. 

I know you will never give back what you took

But I know who will. 

Trust. Trust will teach me to water my buried dreams until they come back to life

Trust will teach me that the whole me is the only me worth being. 

Trust will turn your lies into broken branches that light the fire inside me

And I will burn, without apology, 

Trusting that I am a better me, 

Because I am living my life, 

Fearlessly.