Your Inner Compass

What is it asking you to do

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We each have an inner compass
That teaches us where to go
Who to dine with 
And who to avoid 

It’s when this inner compass is ignored 
Or partially acknowledged 
When things go horribly wrong for us
Of course it will, won’t it?

So, when our inner compass guides us
We listen and obey 
Follow suit 
Then life will be keeping wonderful

Like a garden of roses 
It might be full of thorns 
But who is looking at them 
Or even thinking of them 

When roses are gently dancing in the wind
Asking for appreciation 
Awaiting us to come pick one 
And that’s when it will hurt

It will prick to be precise 
With its thorn if we are not careful 
As long as we keep busy 
Watching its beauty 
From afar off
The rose will not do anything to us 
It will only seem to be inviting us 
To come get one for ourselves 

But when we decide to move closer 
And try to pick one for ourselves 
The thorns will come first 
Into contact 
To prick us without warning 

Why is that ?
Inner compass
It would have told us to be gentle
Admire the rose from afar 
That’s enough 
Don’t get closer and hurt yourself 

But we didn’t pay so much attention 
On a Friday night 
When the whole world was celebrating 
Halloween 

As long as inner compass guides us
And it will keep doing that 
But if we ignore even one of its guidance 

Then its voice will become duller and duller 
Until we can’t hear it anymore 
It gets drowned with the rest of our sounds 
In the neighborhood

So let’s give the inner compass a break
And let’s listen to him or her
Once and for all
So that we don’t have to keep guessing 
How life will turn out 
As long as we allow our inner compass
That just showed up on our radar 
And start listening to it 

For example, it tells me to sit up and wrote
When I listen and obey 
Words flow out of me
Onto my phone
Or whatever I write on 

If I instead don’t sit up
Words struggle to flow out
They want to go back to sleep also
And sometimes they let me sleep some
Before nudging me gently back up again
Like this one did 

What is your inner compass asking you 
Is it asking you to look somewhere 
To listen to something 
Or block your eyes 
From watching it
Or your thoughts from thinking it
Are you listening to it?

Your inner compass is your friend 
Philosopher and guide
Treat it well 
And it will take you places 

Think about this 
Peace ✌🏽 

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