What’s Within

 

What’s Within

 

Giants walk among us

Yet we somehow manage not to see.

Greatness lives within us

Yet we are determined to live small.

We are so busy

Getting ahead

Becoming successful

We forget what success really looks like.

I think it’s made of love

Of smiles, hugs and memories.

Accept the greatness within you

You’ll find love

You’ll have real connections to those around you.

See the giants,

Realize that you too are a giant

In the world

Enlarged by your capacity to love

Even more by your capacity to receive it.

 

It’s easy to forget what lies not only within each other but within ourselves as well. I find it to be very important to spend time discovering what is within ourselves. It’s also important to realize we don’t know what goes on inside someone else.

 

When do you take time to discover what’s inside?

Within Me

 

Within Me

 

I walked through the valley

Through fields of lilies

With my head bent in

Absolute surrender.

I reached the edge,

The pinnacle of all I could take

The fear and anguish

Had become too great

For me to bear.

I let them go,

Dropped them off the nearest cliff,

Walked down into the valley

I fell to my knees

Weeping at the beauty of it all

Combined with the loss,

Of who I thought I was

Of all I thought I lost.

Only to find

The wonder each breath holds

The magic that makes me

Resides in all of you

And lives in every part of this

Divine universe.

I discovered that what I had been

Searching for

Was in me all along.

 

I needed this reminder today. That who I really am does always exist inside of me even if I don’t always remember.

Delivered From Within

 

Delivered From Within

 

Watching from the sky

As clouds wander by.

Piercing through shadows,

Grasping for the light,

Wading through endless

Fog extending fingers,

Longing to touch

Answers for the questions we

Never thought we had.

Until the moment when

Our light shining from within

Delivers us from

The languish, we laid waste in.

We are carried high above

The loneliness and fear

We struggled with below.

 

So often we look outside of ourselves for deliverance, for someone to save us. But we forget to look inside, to remember that we can save ourselves, we can deliver ourselves. That the power lies within us to be our own hero, if we can open up enough to allow our light to shine. 

 

When have you seen your own light?