Poems About Self-Discovery, Growth & Inner Healing

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Bag of Moments

Let go
Or don’t let go,
Same choice.

Let the past be the past,
And the present be the present,
Same choice.

Live in the moment,
And forget the past,
Same choice.

Carry with you,
The moments from the past,
That are in the present.

Those moments
Can lift you to new heights,
And can descend you into a deeper hole.

Look around you,
What reminders do you see? Why?
Echoes of yesterday in today’s story.

Look inside you, who do you see?
If not you, then who?
A gallery of selves, past and present.

Moments of past,
That are present in the present,
Like stars whose light reaches us
Long after they’ve passed.

In the end, we are not defined
By what we remember or forget,
But by how we use each moment
To shape the next.

So let go, or don’t let go,
But always, always choose to grow.
Some outfits may no longer fit.

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When Balance Reveals

When we are out of balance,
We have no real choices,
Yet we convince ourselves
That we do.

Freedom, trapped in a self-made illusion,
Where only one path seems clear.

We move in circles,
Like a hamster on a wheel,
Repeating the same known step,
Again and again.

But balance brings sight to the horizon,
The taste of freedom on our lips
And only then can we choose—
Freely.

Armed with wisdom,
To guard against harm,
And nurture the connections
That bring us life.

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Unshackled

Trapped in a fantasy,
Ensnared in a dreamscape,
A gilded cage of your own design.

Paralyzed by fear,
Roots of doubt anchoring you to illusion,
Afraid to truly live.

Shielding yourself from
The guardian,
While baring your soul to
The hunter.

Doubting virtue,
Condemning it as vice,
While trusting the wicked,
As if malice were grace.

Clarity is absent,
Lost in the fog of self-deception,
Discernment deceived,
A compass spinning wildly,
Wisdom is a forgotten art,
Buried beneath layers of false knowing.

Arrive in the present.
Be here, now.
Show up for life.

Leave the foreign shadow.
Don’t miss the raw, unfiltered moment.

It’s simple—
Yet profound in its simplicity.
Slow your mind,
Let it breathe.

Unshackle yourself,
Break the chains of false perceptions.
Emerge from the cocoon of fear,
Spread wings of authenticity.

In the clarity of presence,
Find the strength to be vulnerable,
The courage to be real,
The wisdom to discern truth from lies.

Embrace the unscripted moment,
Where life’s true magic unfolds.
In nakedness of spirit,
Discover the freedom of being.

Unshackled at last,
Step into the light of your own truth,
Where every breath is a celebration,
And every moment, a rebirth.

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Unspoken Depths

Listen to
The whisper of thoughts
Before they become words.

See
Time’s invisible sleigh of hands
Sculpting moments from eternity.

Smell
The fragrance of dreams
Wafting from the subconscious.

Taste
The flavor of emotions
Simmering in the heart’s cauldron.

Feel
The weight of unwritten roles
Hovering in potential.

Experience
Worlds beyond worlds,
Realities folded within realities.
Destiny hidden in a single cell.

Perceive
Stretching the mind’s canvas
Beyond the frame of possibility.

Plant
The seed,
The sparks of revelation,
In the fertile soil of wonder.

Embrace
The paradox of being,
Both particle and wave,
Observer and observed.

Navigate
The labyrinth of the self,
A mirror reflecting the cosmos.

Resonate
With the frequency of creation,
Vibrating in harmony
A note in the cosmic chord.

Transcend
The boundaries of perception,
To touch the face of mystery.

In these unspoken depths,
We find the silent spaces between heartbeats,
Where eternity whispers its secrets.

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The Stranger’s Truth

It is hard being misunderstood,
Like a book written in a forgotten tongue.
Misunderstanding denies
The existence of identity,
Self and truth,
A erasure of the soul’s fingerprint.

Feeling misunderstood,
Is a feeling of non-acceptance
Of who we are,
A rejection of our inner landscape,
Mountains of experience flattened
By the bulldozer of presumption.

Accept or pass,
Don’t deny.

My misunderstandings are
Simple to understand,
Like clear water mistaken for air.

I am always a stranger,
A traveler in a land of familiar faces.
And I always become
A stranger,
Even to those closest
To me.

People sense the breath
Of depth,
An ocean beneath a still surface,
And assume intentions,
Sometimes they assume,
Bad intentions.

But the truth is
What they sense
Is an unfiltered directness,
A deeper meaning,
Waiting to be uncovered,
Like buried treasure beneath
The sands of superficiality.

There is no veil,
There is essence.

In this world of masks and mirrors,
I stand naked in my truth,
Unbreakable, a paradox.

Misunderstood, yes,
But in the quiet of self-knowledge,
I find the acceptance
The world often fails to give.

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Born Naked

Born naked,
No boundaries,
But bonds of
breath and being.

Born naked,
Free, with no borders,
Just curiosity’s flame.
A lighthouse in the fog.

Identity,
Not in this chapter,
Not in this lesson,
A blank canvas,
Awaiting society’s brush.

Meaning and service,
Imagination and tranquility,
Gratitude and exploration,
Yet often traded for
Comfort in conformity.

We teach ours
And theirs,
Presentation and acts,
Masks worn daily,
Truth lost in the act,
Authenticity, a forgotten script.

Who’s watching over us?

We don’t teach faith,
We teach worship of idols.

We don’t teach questions,
We teach answers prepackaged,
Easy to digest,
Hard to escape,
Mental fast food.

We don’t teach thinking,
We teach status,
The climb over others,
A race with no end,
Sisyphus in a suit and tie.

Likes over essence,
Thrills over purpose,
Moments of euphoria,
Digital applause in an empty auditorium.

Who’s watching over us?
Our forgotten selves, perhaps,
Peering through the cracks.

From naked truths
To clothed deceit,
We walk life’s wardrobe,
Trying on identities like costumes,
Forgetting the skin beneath.

Beneath the layers,
The naked child still breathes,
The flame flickering,
Waiting to be fanned.

Who’s watching over us?
The answer lies in the question,
For in asking, we awaken
To the watchers.

Born naked,
We return to nakedness.

Who’s watching over us?
Let it be our truest,
Guardians of the flame,
That burns at our birth.

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A House Without Foundation

They cultivate an aura of ambiguity,
leaving the truth cloaked in fog
that bends with every breeze,
ever-shifting to suit
the whims of convenience.

This being vague is
no deception of others,
but a self-delusion, you understand,
and a refusal to stop
drifting aimlessly above
the solid ground of principle.

By leaving the truth open
to interpretation,
they reserve the right to pivot,
to rewrite and to redefine,
thereby not only betraying
others’ trust
but also their own being.

For in the depths of
their own hearts,
they know that to stand
for anything is like being
bound by conviction,
and so they trade firm ground
for the fleeting shelter
of a passing cloud.

Their words wind through
labyrinths of mirrored reflections,
refracting meanings that
splinter and distort,
making it possible
for one person to speak
several truths at once.

But eventually,
this kind of impotence reveals
something deeper:
it shows that these individuals
are willing to betray the roots
of their integrity
to avoid the weight of discomfort—
when perhaps it
would have been better
if they had just stated clearly
what they meant instead.

Those who engage in such pretenses
do not lie before others,
but rather lie before themselves,
undermining their own character
with each evasion.

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Sometimes

Sometimes, our eyes betray us,
Revealing more than we can hold.

Sometimes, it’s better
To turn away,
To let one side remain in shadow.

Sometimes, we feel too deeply,
Our hearts stretch and hurt
So profoundly.
Sometimes, we laugh so joyfully,
And love with all we are.

Sometimes, our senses overwhelm us.
Sometimes, it’s better
To let one side remain unseen.

Do we show up in fragments,
Pieces waiting to be reassembled
And reinterpreted?
Or do we arrive whole,
Complete, with all our
Imperfections, cracks and missing parts?

Our hopes and dreams
Rooted in the solid ground
Of what we can truly offer,
And what we truly need.

Sometimes, we see so little.
Sometimes, it’s enough
To just arrive—
To stand and show up for life.

Sometimes,
My mirrors reflect
Sometimes,
My roots grow deep
Into the earth of connection
Sometimes,
I am fire.
Sometimes,
I am ash.
Sometimes,
I am present.

Sometimes, I wonder why.
Sometimes, I wonder how.
Sometimes, I wonder when.
Sometimes, I wonder what.

Sometimes, I start.
Sometimes, I finish.
Sometimes, I give up.
Sometimes, I am the fight.

Sometimes, we want more.
Sometimes, we want less.
Sometimes, we find the balance
Of what to give.

Sometimes, I play God.
Sometimes, I serve the world.
Sometimes, I am

Sometimes,
In the still moment of silence.

And sometime,
Once upon a time.

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In The Name

I am,
Embraces all,
A boundless light—
Like dawn’s first ray
Touching earth
And the sky.

Be mindful
Of your words,
They’re seeds in soil.
Consider deeply
What you name,
The bonds you create—
Roots spreading unseen.

The essence dwells
In every space
You choose to inhabit,
A whisper in the wind,
A ripple in still waters.

Be thoughtful,
Be reflective,
Express fully
What you
Call yourself.

It shapes you—
Your heart, your core,
Like a potter’s hands
Molding, yielding clay.
It is you,
And reflects what you
Offer the world.

You live
Your chosen name,
A mantra, a beacon.
The image
You craft of yourself
Becomes your truth,
Etched in the story
Of your unfolding days.

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