IT'S MY TURN

Here's the deal. My brain's been feeling so crowded lately that I haven't had the clarity to sit down and put pen to paper. Well here's the situation thus far. I just landed a new job for a marketing firm! I am excited,,,it's downtown on Michigan Ave. and you know I do love being in my beautiful city! I feel this new position will liberate my time and my mind. I feel a great deal of stress lifted off myself already. It's my turn. Ready or not here I come and there is not a damn thing that can stop me now. I have a September 30th deadline to complete 10 full poems plus a Bio on myself, that will hopefully make the cut and be published in a poetry compilation! This is the point where I will find out if I am worthy to be called an author. I am a writer there is no doubt to that. But a published Author is a Dream that I can make a reality sooner than I thought. That's where the nerves set in. I have some previous poems I'd like to include. I feel a little anxiety but it's more of an anxious anxiety. It's finally happening. I have finally come into my own. It's been a wild ride, but I don't regret any of it. I lived, I learned, and I am loving my life! Finally! Sure it's a small step but it's a step that seemed unreachable in my darker days. Now my Dream's are attainable because I have the will, the strength  and the discipline to achieve them. Most of all I believe in me. Belief was the hardest thing to hold onto and to feel fulfillment in. But my belief is was pulled me through and brought me to this breakthrough point in my life. I was always so afraid to do something of value, something I value. I always underestimated my talents. I let people's opinions and words bring me down and I fulfilled their prophecies at times. I learned that I do not have to be a certain way or follow a certain path for anyone else but me. I struggled with so much my entire life. I've let people close to me weight me down with their own issues a top of my heavy baggage. I am responsible for myself and my actions. I wasn't in the right state of mind to deal with any additional trauma. Today I lift those weights off me, I have taken the blindfold off and see the light that shines from within me. My spirit shines, my soul radiates my love. I believe in people, I believe in you, I believe in me and I believe if your going to be anything, be ICONIC;-)

"YOU GOTTA LET GO

TO LET YOUR HEART GROW

IT'S TIME TO WRITE YOUR OWN SONG

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A NEW START

SO LET THAT RECORD PLAY ON

AND MAKE MUSIC IN YOUR HEART"

-DAVID VICTOR PAVON