The Initial Choice

Everyone makes mistakes
And some mistakes are immediately apparent
While others take years to realize

But what constitutes a mistake?
Undesired outcome?
Unexpected result?
Regret?

There is a difference between mistakes
And accidents

Accidents happen unintentionally
Unexpectedly
By forces outside of your control

Mistakes happen
When one makes a choice
And the result is not good

The act of choosing
Is not a mistake

The mistake is
Thinking that the choice
Is the right one

But since there is no way
To see the future

Whatever drives one to think
That a choice is the right choice

At that particular moment
Is not a mistake

So in essence
There are no mistakes in life
Just bad outcomes

And the outcomes
Are usually  based on
Your choices made after

The initial choice

No Finish Line

You can only climb a mountain

If the mountain stays a mountain

You can only reach the summit

If the summit remains still

You can only win the race

If there is a finish line

But people of this world

Tries to climb a mountain that is not

Tries to reach the summit

That keeps on moving

Racing toward

No finish line

One blind man

Thousand blind men 

With a guiding principle

The principle of men

Blind men

Over The Darkness

How will you rest
Be free like a bird
Flying high in the sky

When your worries
Your anger
Your hatred

When your bitterness
Your resentment
Your fear

Weigh you down
Pull you down
And hold you to the ground

Let it go
Must let it go
Let it all go away

For you hold the key
The only key
That can unlock the cage

Then you can fly
Free from oppression
And soar into the sky

Light as a feather
Rising over the clouds
To see the Light

Over the Darkness

H.E.L.F

There you have it America
The verdict is in
And it is not guilty

Not guilty

Not because he is truly innocent
But because the law of the land
The law which was authored by the people
For the people
Makes this person innocent

Yes
Now you can go to Florida
With a gun in your back pocket
Provoke someone to hit you
And take some hits to your face
And shoot that person dead

The jury has spoken

And they were so heartbroken
To deliver the verdict
That they all cried
Yes, cried

Oh how sad it must have been
To let the person who gunned down the boy
To go free
When it was their job to get it right
Not analyze
Not scrutinize
Not play lawyer
But just deliver the verdict
Based on facts that are indisputable

But no
They scrutinized
Dissected and put the facts under microscope
To find one reason not to convict
And they succeeded
Oh how sad it must have been

And they thought Trayvon said
HELF!!!
No....hold it.
It says H.E.L.F.
Never mind

The Inferiority Complex

There is something to be said
About doing things opposite
Of what everyone expects

It might generate
Some sense of uniqueness
Independence
Or perhaps
A sense of self righteousness
Or superiority?

To feel noble about oneself
To set apart from the crowd
An automatic knee jerk reaction
But fully calculated

And driven
By the insatiable desire
To overcome

The inferiority complex