Choose Yourself

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Choose yourself.

Look at the water

Don’t stare. Look.

Look at the light in the life of a tear.

Gone already. It’s in vain.

The smile of the street,

The laugh of a train

Picture it and you’ll know what I mean.

This life is free for you if you are reading this.

Enjoy and toast. Why not? You are free.

Insipid skies only happen in your eyes.

You are brutal to life if you don’t see

That on this cherry night, the moon laughed

And the sun flirted with a star, while the

Smog of a car drove under the Milky Way and

Waved hello to Orion and to Venus in the sky.

Don’t be blinded by your broken heart.

It’s not easy. I am in it. But see the beauty of life.

What will the Mountains say to you tomorrow?

Why not look at their magic today instead?

Or look at the Empire State.

Its evening light in the winter can give you hope.

You are in two different states.

Now go home and feel the air in your being.

You are alive and I understand that you feel dead, but

Don’t go against it. There is a plan out there, I think,

And it is this:

Learn. Do it differently and even better next time, but hurt today.

Just look at the smog of the car that goes past the moon

And says hello. Just the smog does. Not the human.

Do you really want to be him?

Notice, my darling! Life surrounds you even in sorrow.

Rise, my love, inside you are stronger and you know it.

Take the time it takes, but don’t linger on it.

Everything smiles at you; you just have to spot it.

Open your eyes at night and close them in the morning.

You’ll see that life goes on and that you are in it at this moment.

Choose yourself. There is nothing more to say on it.

Make a circle with your hand around your right eye and

Look at only the Sky. See it. Say where you are and

Remember where you were while you were free and in

Pain. Remember. You may be here again. Be calm.

It’s been said before but now it means something to you.

Take it in. Good luck and smile. You are stronger than you know.

I trust you.

©2012 Cassandra Huidobro