focus on your truth.
Do not give up valuable space
in your head for easy answers.
Think for yourself as opposed
to letting others think for you.

Check your facts and reject the
hype to avoid the half stepping
that leads you further away
into some spin cycle
madness for tomorrow.

Think. Know where you want to go.
Stay on course and proceed
with your eyes open wide.
Do not share or give in to shortcuts.
Focus on now before it’s later.
Don’t stay where nothing ever happens.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.