[for pbp]
To survive…we must SEEK Joy..
I didn’t say to live..
To SURVIVE..
We must Seek joy..
Guard it Fiercely..

We must CHOOSE to hope..

CHOOSE TO HOPE

Choose to hope

Cause life can strip you of the ENERGY
The DESIRE..
THE STRENGTH
to Hope

It’s so easy to fall…
To get pulled into the fathomless murky churning depths of Despair
To succumb to the swell of
Black evil waters
Surging past you
Sucking you into it..

FALL ..
It says

Fall in…
Let me comfort you..
Forget the struggle, the righteous indignation..
What do you do...when you can do NOTHING??

Fall
In..

Let me carry you..
Direction is meaningless
Future irrelevant..
Purpose unnecessary..

FALL..

Fall In..
I guarantee Numbness..
Not single minded apathy…
not motivated self preservation.
NUMBNESS

Numb to joy
To anger
To pain
No Need for Justice for unfair deaths
Political travesties…
Numb to genocide, to starvation,
To international Hypocrisies…

FALL

Fall in..

No failed dreams here…
No insecurities about failure
Or life goals…
Or fulfilling the destiny that you FEEL….but cant TOUCH yet..

Give up

FALL IN

Let my waters wash you
Rage and Despair do their cleansing..
All here are free…
An eye …for your eye
No guilt…
No conscience needed…

FALL

In..

I speak truth to you…
You feel it…
It resonates in your head..

FALL IN.

To survive..
You choose to not fall
To not have that black safety blanket..
That Choice is Life..

It is a painful, awful thing..
It is acknowledging that pain will come
Must come
Loss will come
Must Come…
That despair will eat at your heart and your head
And wring any presence of belief in man and human nature and innate goodness in THEM and in YOU…
That someone will Laugh and ridicule the very things..
The only things that you Hold Sacred..
And you …YOU will be able to Do
NOTHING…

But FALL…

But..

When you do..

You lose laughter..
You lose feeling sun on your face..and optimism for the day
You miss knowing that you’re loved..and loving in return
You miss being remembered in someone’s eyes…
You miss music…and wonder…and Learning..
And living a life time of love in a few precious moments..
You miss

HOPE..

Choose.
Choose Hope.