Learning to Live

Learning to Live

By: Erin

When you get used to being paralyzed by one thing or another

You forget:

To live

To love

To laugh

Learning to live is a strange sensation

Involving:

Building a proper foundation

Resisting temptation

Believing and affirmation

Sitting with agitation

Lots of confrontation

Hours of conversation

Self-exploration

External and internal inspiration

A degree of maturation

Sometimes realization and revelation

Resulting in

Beautiful transformation

Which leads you to remember:

To Live

To Love

To Laugh

And you are no longer paralyzed by that one thing or theother over there

No.

You are free

To move, to go here, to live there, to run to the mountains,jump in the ocean – or simply sit anywhere

Learning to live is a strange sensation

Resulting in

Beautiful transformation

A Better Day

A Better Day

By: Erin

There is nothing quite like a better day after a string of rough ones

Relief after it feels like the world is weighing down on you tons

There is nothing like a better day

A day like today

Nothing spectacular happened in any way

But again I felt like Erin today

I went to class and did just fine

And then I kept going without decline

Today was a better day

I was able to do my thing today

Seven days of feeling rough to the core

Can make you want to cry, scream, fight, isolate, and hide and more

Fearful this darkness would never fade to the distance

I felt tired of my very existence

But today was a better day

In a very ‘regular’ way

Which is the best kind of day I could ever have at all

Because those days remind me – there are more to come – even after a painful fall

Today was a better day

After seven days that hurt in almost every way

But just as there is sun at the end of every storm

At the end of a string of cold bad days, there is something better, something warm

Today was a better day