Trapped in my unnatural state of isolation

My mind and I have travelled down some rugged terrain

Anchored in the basic need for survival

Ever vigilant about the costs and opportunity of ubiquitous struggle

Can I skilfully avoid being a victim of an ever threatening environment

Can I maintain a resilience of thoughts

Can I draw upon the thinking that leads me to prosperity

Can I avoid the threatening calls for me to resign to a demise

Can I draw deeply upon my spirit

My intentions

Can I with a heart, so full of love

Bestow a love toward my own self

So that I can, in fact, be of service to so many suffering

Can I rise above my own self doubt and insecurities

To take this challenge on

The epic battle of nodes in my neural pathways

Knowing that the power I can apply

Resides in the very same place as my own imagined enemies

Can I draw upon my heart

So that my child is left with the certainty of my bravery

So that my family can worry not a moment for my safety

And so that my community can be lead by the light I create in my own mind

Both light and dark are within me

And in the midst of this battle

I remain dedicated to a being that serves my victory

I continue to fight the darkness that I also possess

In the hope that new expectations of something more

Can propel us all to something better

I am as brittle as the glass through which I can see the world

As forceful and powerful as the the miracle of my biology

I am but a subject of my own enquiry

A result of my practice

An outcome of my desires

A force of my own reckoning

I am human

With love,

Scotty M