Things happen twice, Internally & Externally.

You think it you bring it

You put it out into the universe the universe will create it

Armed with that knowledge I urge all you blessed people to check your belief system and thought processes cause you just might manifest that which you think and believe and have it be, a self-fulfilling prophecy. In some instances that may be a good thing and in other circumstances it may not be.

Don’t’ underestimate the power that lies in you! Keep it real and to thy own self be true.Peace beautiful people, catch you on the flip side. Much love.

Expectation:

• To look forward to something

• To wait in hope

• To anticipate

• To predict

• A probability that something may occur

I have found that often times Expectations can be the catalyst for disappointments and hurt feelings if the expectation is not balance well with the reality of people (their character, personality, & limitations), situations and circumstances. 

Here is a litte mindfulness thought.

• There is absolutely nothing wrong with hoping, dreaming, imagining possibilities however before you go anticipating, predicting, depending on the hypostasis of this or that give equal consideration to the other side of the spectrum.

What are your thoughts on EXPECTATIONS?

Some days my puddle is just a puddle

Small, insignificant,

Barely existent much like a tiny drip

Other days it enlarges and grazes the souls of my feet

Barely enough to touch my toes

Shielded by the barrier of my shoes however…

More noticeable, shimmering

Reflecting, mirroring my denials

Forecasting stubborn unfinished truths

Putting me on notice

In those moments when the truth refuse to be denied

I gaze resign and anxious at my puddle’s transparency

Almost mocking in its exposure

Revealing everything beneath

Pure truths, stark naked and unbending

Shamelessly moving through a rancid path from yesterday into today

Suffocating

Transfixing

Stealing away my confidence

Leaving flakes of sadness and poisoned laughter

Clinging bitterly to my throat

Some days my puddle is my coffin

Suffocating and strangling hope

Dismantling dreams

From its nonstop dreadful stink of yesteryear

Round in the belly of my psyche

Other days my puddle shifts

From beneath my feet

To huddle in my nose

Stealing my breath

Blurring my vision

Pushing me maliciously toward despair

But stubbornly I reposition myself

Poised and filled with a robustness birthed at the feet of anguish

That merged and morphed through the ages of tribulations

Defiantly I blow it out

Triumphant and euphoric

I reduce my puddle to just a puddle again

A tiny speck

Barely discernable

That for the most part

Goes unnoticed

 DBS Rhapsody © 2007

Sometimes the most challenging thing one can experience is getting clear, and focused about achieving our own sense of balance and purpose. At times the journeyed complexities of life, work, living, learning, loving, and relationships clogs the brain, mutes the voice and deafen the intuition, so that we barely recognize ourselves. We become alienated from our center, displaced in our own skins, minds, and bodies and desensitized to how we become participants and perpetrators of our own hurts. It becomes necessary then in order to heal, grow, and gain particular insight to self that we become still, that we be silent, and honest about the things that fill us, hinder us, block our paths, and muddy our way.

I BELIEVE

Clarity of mind, spirit, and purpose seizes to flow fluently into excellence

When fogged in by toxic resistances cloaked in Regret, Guilt, Sorrow, and Shame

The defeatist rational,

I could have, I should have, I would have, if only,

Morosely vacillates blocking the blessing and fighting to infuse you

To give up

To give in

Don’t…

Get out of your own way

Proactively remove the unproductive mindless clutter

Make room for vision, dreams, and possibilities

Followed by action to make it happen

Construct those the realities’

By …

Changing the things that can be changed

Accepting the things you cannot

Forgiving yourself your humanness

Learning from your mistakes

Free yourself

From the humiliation

Get the lesson in the experience

Internalize its wisdom bequeathed you

And act on the knowledge it conveys

To gain…

Clarity of Mind, body, spirit, and purpose

You say you love me

Yet with every breath you condemn me

Words fly out your mouth without doubt

“Baby I love you, come let me hold you”

“Your breasts are so small, get some implants for me”

Spewing words that threaten to dismantle me

Contaminate me

Deconstruct me

Annihilate me

Naively I could not see you were the enemy

Until you declared your love for me

With a punctuated slap and a chokehold that stunned me

Couldn’t catch my breath

I was so perplexed

It get me vex

The anger riled in me

Looking for context

Muted in place

Mind racing to comprehend

Going through the who, what, where, why and when

Bamboozled

Dizzy from the mental query

Questioning…

How could all this be happening to me?

What’s going on?

What went wrong?

Who is this man?

God, who he be?

Singing sweet words of loving eternity

Only to devour my spirit and suffocate the will in me

I didn’t expect a saint

Neither did I expect Satan

Serving up love with a reprimand

I am worth more than the back of a man’s hand

I’ve had enough

Once is all it takes

No need to be chained to this mistake

You say you love me

But I love me more!

I have a life to live,

Much love to give,

Dreams to fulfill,

A world to explore,

Am working out the door

Ah! Shhhhhhhhhh!

Not a word…

Save the declaration

This relationship just hit its expiration

  DBS Rhapsody © 2007

Just because one is fertile it means they should be parents.

Just because one can marry it means they should.

Just because one can get what they want, when they want, from whom they want it means they should take advantage.

Just because one is popular it means that they are loved.

Just because one knows some things it means they know everything or should have opinions about all things.

Just because one looks nice it means they are nice

Just because one is handsome or beautiful it means they are of good character.

Just because is an assumption carried by a perception however it is not a definition of whom or what one should or could be.

Place more value on self; stop getting carried away by the voice of everyone else 

Think…

Stop wishing to be somebody else, everybody else, anybody else but self and start living.

Do not drown in envy and saturate in petty jealousies.

Just because can lead you on all fours if you are not hip to the cause, the rhyme and the reason.

Just be yourself.

Just because is not a good reason to give up free will and choice.

D.S.B. Rhapsody ©  2007

Heavenly Divine, grant me patience when I am at my wits end,

Wisdom to speak clearly without being offensive or defensive

So that my voice is heard,

My points understood,

To bear fruit and manifest gloriously.

Give me the courage to walk away

When every temptation to do battle is nipping at my heels,

Biting at my shoulders,

Crowding up my head,

Springing water in my mouth,

Sitting on my lips,

In my hips,

In my ears,

And in my fists.

Divine father as I sit here in my imperfectness.

Teach me the value of silence and the knowledge therein.

Teach me to walk in grace,

To be fearless yet wise in my countenance,

To rise when I feel like sinking,

To persevere in seeming hopelessness,

Guide my footsteps and set my course.

Raise the veil from my eyes, ears, heart, and mind

Granting me wisdom, knowledge, and understanding

So that I may see, hear, feel, articulate, know, smell, taste, sense

And comprehend all that will attempt to defeat my mind, body, heart, soul, and spirit.

DSB Rhapsody © 2007