Not easy.

No. It’s not easy.

It wasn’t supposed to be.

But You have got all the weapons;

That your battle will ever need.

You wait for the right time;

You feel it isn’t now.

But this is what you’ve got,

That’s more than clear and loud.

The roads never do the walking.

The paths are always sought after.

I ask, who tames the camel;

Other than its own master?

No matter how much you’d like that;

Life doesn’t come with a manual.

Sad, the expenses come daily;

Appraisals? Only annual.

So stop waiting for that instant-

The moment that never might come.

Live this second utterly.

Leave behind what’s done.

Put into action, all your energies;

And fruits will eventually bear.

Hope, perseverance and good-will

Can overcome every fear.

And when all apprehensions evaporate

You only have yourself to defeat.

As some great man said,

And I only dare repeat:

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”