POEM: Get Up

Just take a second and bask in it...

Let it wash over you like the sun or the rain or the wind.

How fortunate we are to be able to

write

sing

dance

paint

flow

act

rhyme

our way through life when the world around us is often disapointing and lonely.

How fortunate we are to have

dreams and the chance to make them come true

passion and the fortitude to fight through the fray

creativity and the willingness to let it pour from and through us like water

a voice.

And the desperate need to have it heard.

So, now that you're done basking.

GET UP.

Get back to

writing

singing

dancing

painting

acting

flowing

rhyming

your way through life.

Because life is so much more beautiful than burdensome.

Don't waste your good fortune on fear or doubt.

Your art is for you.

But it isn't ONLY for you.

It is also for me.

And for them.

And we are just

waiting for you

to make

it.