My Soul Lifts

My Soul Lifts

...when I let go.

The very real strain
of carrying way too much
responsibility for rectifying
the state of the human world,
has long burdened my soul
and kept me sober.

Pause to rejoice
if you ever find me
laughing and drinking,
as such silly activities
have always seemed
like mere distractions.

For so long I've despised
and judged even more harshly,
those appearing unable or unwilling
to undertake a bit of introspection
for the benefit of everyone else.

But who am I to decide?

The only way I will lighten up,
is by letting go of everything
over which I have no control.

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Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this:
to know so much and to have control over nothing.
~ Herodotus

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