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Be Bold:
the World is hungry for you
and those ideas will
eat you up inside
otherwise

Take Heart:
you may have planted
a thousand unfruitful seed
yet one will be plenty,
should it grow,
and it will grow, mightily,
lifting you with it.
Keep planting.

Be Brave:
snuff the tiny voice in you
that squeals
“I can’t…”
“..but..”
“..but..”;
it is killing you.

Dare.
Dare and we all win;
it’s not difficult –
you just find it too easy
to think it so.

There’s enough of you to go around,
and so
give it away;
your gift is meant for others –
that which is not consumed
becomes stale,
an unseemly ornament.

Reach out:
many a dream
requires a touch from another’s hand
before
it can be grasped.

Relish
your friend’s victories –
they taste sweeter than your own;
you have your reward already:
you feel alive again.

Unite
your passions,
your will,
your friends and well-wishers, all;
you will not fail.

Defy
the odds,
the naysayers,
the obstacles and unknowables;
your success will become certain
in time.

And so
Be Bold,
my friend:
it speaks of who you are
and everything you will yet become.