The You That Has More

If you think you have gone as high as you are going to go

That is testimony most lucid that there is much you do not know

For is it not hubris beyond compare to maintain there is no higher me?

For no one has the fullest picture of whom they can truly be

If you decide that your life has reached it's ceiling

You have drained it of any continued meaning

For how can you matter if for you, more life does not matter

Open your heart and forget not to be humble
No matter the journey , no matter your stumble

For folly it is to assume full knowledge of that that which you did not create

So you stand willing , wanting and thirsting at possibility's gate

At the ready to learn and welcome the you that has more

As always with excitement to see what else is in store

How do I find joy

How do I find joy in life
When all I see and feel is strife
Wherever I turn wrong seems rife
And regret has the cut of a searing knife
For some reason eventually I take pause
And it dawns on me that maybe I am the cause
Of what I choose to see and where I stand
So despite any strife I let my vision expand
To include what goes right ,what is magnificent and grand
I then busy myself with thank you so I have no time for why me
It suddenly becomes possible for me to authentically be
I choose better over bitter so that good is what I feel
then enduring joy no matter how big or small become totally real