Life & Bikes | Poem

"I Trust Myself. For I have learned from my bets of yesterday, so I will do better tomorrow because I'm doing my best today." - Steven O. Lynn

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Life is like a bike, on the rough streets of trouble

Pedal rotating in confidence, guided by the sailing wheels of courage

Despite black wounds of humiliation and the watchful judging eyes

A resounding body of focus, extends its limbs to grip determination by the weathered handles

Growing winds of resistance challenge any leg of solid persistence

Leaning for the bitter ground of hurts to slow the rushing blood of dreams,

Letting it spill past the broad arms of time,

Leaving one still with a fallen frame of reference

And yet, the sturdy feet of stubbornness can place you back on faith’s cushioned seat

Budding muscles of motivation and the gutsy stance of love propels the continuous motion of success

Past the memories of countless falls

The balancing act of life on the gravity defying bike known as hope

Lingering in the warm breaths of consciousness that we shall find our unique rhythm under the bright sunshine of certainty and in the mysteries of murky rain clouds

This, my first time, learning to ride with my own weight...frightens me

The choice to do it anyways is a drumming heartbeat of trust,

That I am now willing to fall again and again and again and again till I have trailed the distance, balanced and free

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Life & Bikes by SoL

Performance was STAYonLIT

Lyrics were Composed in SoL

Published via Embold with SoL

Written in August, 2020 | Literary Device Exercise (Assignment from LeRory Bean)

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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTIST:

This Artistic Piece of Literature is the Sole

Intellectual Property of The Original Author &

Copyright Owner by name of Steven O. Lynn

bka SoL aka Mista STAYonLIT; All Rights Reserved.

Buy a copy of the audio recording for this poem @ https://mrstayonlit.bandcamp.com/track/life-bikes

Art by SoL / Photos by Stephanie Lynn

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