The car is all packed, and you’re ready for your trip.
Reaching your destination, you will guide your ship
You’re the captain, and have the choice of your route.
Don’t pick the popular one, or the one leaving doubt.
Things along the way will cause you damage and hurt.
This damage will be very hard to overcome or revert.
The signs and signals that you’ll receive are all a code.
They are the language and signs posted on the road.
If you don’t know what they mean, you will get lost.
You will circle back to paths you’ve already crossed.
Ignoring the signs will make it hard to stay the course.
The beginning and end will be impossible to reinforce.
You will waste all your time taking detour after detour.
Frustrated and lost, you’re unsure where to go anymore.
You are unable to find your way back onto the main path.
Looking back on this later, you will surely want to laugh.
On the main path, you can travel fast and at great speed.
There are limits posted on speeds that you can’t exceed.
These signs are posted wherever you can possibly travel.
You can travel faster on asphalt that you can on gravel.
Whenever you finally reach your destination, you will learn.
You traveled off course, making you path hard to discern.
If you traveled it twice, it might turn out better and nice.
But as it is with all things, you must simply roll the dice.
Written by: Craig Dunkleberger
Phot by: Freepik
THE RULES DON’T APPLY
Nick Shockney, the current CCPS Assistant Superintendent broke the law and it was covered up. This poem odd to blow the whistle on this behavior and hold him accountable for his actions, once and for all B
PERSPECTIVE AND IDENTITY
If I see a six, and you see a nine; No perspective, needs a redefine. Perspective, lies in the beholder. Each is found, above the shoulder.
FREE TO LIBERATE
Every American has the liberty to simply choose. Too many give that right up, for too many views. Your choice might not be the same, as my choice. Your choice isn’t better, making me lose my voice.
CENSORING MY VOICE
Don’t silence my voice, if it’s different than you. My opinions are many, they are not just a few. How can I stay quiet, when i was mistreated? The silent, give it permission, to be repeated.
EFFORT ITSELF
Any effort starts with the decision to just try. Effort requires energy, for us to then apply. A decision of effort, starts inside of our brain. The brain’s nueroplasticity, is what we’ll gain.
GET A GRIP ON YOUR GRUDGE
It is a hard feeling, when you hold a grudge. You can’t let go of the past, and won’t budge. All of the future is blurry because of the past. They blur together, as time has then amassed.
THE COLORS WE ALL SEE
You will always see color, and me, will just the same. Our eyesight doesn’t need adjustment, or reframe. Color is something, we all see, with some emotion. The colors we see, set our emotions, into motion.
OPEN YOUR MIND
Everyone has different beliefs, all felt in the heart. First, you have beliefs, they make you fall apart. Untrue beliefs, are confronted from the very start. Understanding your current thinking, plays a part.
PARENTS AS ARTISTS
When your child is born, they are simply a blank slate. They are but a canvas, for your artwork to demonstrate. Artwork, is not a duplication, but an opportunity for art. No formula or directions are given, right from the start.
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