A Poet's Journey

A Poet's Journey

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A Poet's Journey
A Poet's Journey
It’s All in the Stories

It’s All in the Stories

The stories we tell ourselves

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Bob Metivier
Dec 29, 2022
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“Now I can read in the dark.” Photo by Nong V on Unsplash

It’s all in the stories
The stories we tell
To the people around us
And often ourselves

The road to perfection
Is not what it seems
Too many directions
We take from our dreams

It seems far too easy 
Swift to lose our way
Forgetting the story
Is still ours to play

We question each move that we make
We judge eve…

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