Footnotes

03 Jun Footnotes

Follow the beat in your chest

Sometimes you have to follow your heart, 
swallow your pride, and hope you don't choke.
You can't ever give up on the things you need the most. 
Everyone makes mistakes, and, if you don't take risks,
how will you ever know the answers to the what-ifs?

You have to listen to what your heart wants, 
even if your mind says its wrong. Sometimes 
the road to realization is long, and maybe it hurts,
but you must put your happiness first.

Some have been thought brave 
because they were afraid to run away*,
but that doesn't make it okay to stay. 
When your heart aches for a different path 
than your feet have found, sometimes 
you have to turn around, find the right ground,
and follow the beat in your chest. 
Your mind doesn't always know best.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion**,
and there is no magic potion to erase your deepest yen.
You must let your heart over-speak your head 
to succeed. You can't ever give up on the things you need.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake***, 
no matter what is at stake. There is no wrong risk to take
when it's a decision you let your heart make.

Sometimes you have to let things go, or else 
you may never know if it was meant to be.
Even if it seems that your every hope and dream 
falls to shit – you will always succeed in knowing the what-if.
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*Thomas Fuller
**Samual Johnson
***Henry David Thoreau

Originally written: 06/03/2007

Included in my self-published e-book, Moths & Moonlight © 2011.