Encouraging Words

Encouraging Words

For Jen Starn Allingham

by dan ankers

Encouraging words

Won’t take you as far

As a bike or a plane

Or a train or a car

And they can sometimes seem cruel, too

Like a mirror image that’s being used

Just to abuse you

A perfect portrait

Of what could be

On the other side of your reality

Where everyone smiles

And everyone seems happy

Encouraging words are like

Drawn pictures of birds

That are

Pleasing to the mind’s eye

And elevate the spirit

But they’ll never help you learn to fly

No, they’ll never even get you near it

Not one iota closer, to stepping off

That living roller coaster

Despite that fact

Take my encouragement

That everything’s going to be just fine

In the end

Because when you take action

You control your life

To a level which is refined

And as divine

As anything can be

You’ll see

And when you look at pictures of birds

And when you hear these encouraging words

Know that flying is not in order

Nor is speeding like a car

Or any other vehicle

That might physically take you far

The means of travel you will seek

Will be your form of destiny

And where forging a great destiny is concerned

There can be no better means

Than travelling within yourself

And flying with your own wings

Which lift atop the wind

The thoughts within your head

You will rise up like the Eagle

Above

Such Mundane

Things