joey k poetry

Somebody has to tell you that
everything will be okay. You
need to hear it even if it’s
in writing and you have to
read it out loud to yourself.
Say it to yourself now,
“everything will be okay.”
That was me, speaking in
your voice. Isn’t that grand?

I know it all hurts right
now. Would it make any
sense to not be hurt?
To not suffer? You are not
in pain right now thanks
to any shortcomings or
inadequacies or failures.
Your pain comes from
being alive. You have to
experience this because
if it were any other way
you’d never become
yourself.
Pain is temporary, only
the present moment is
eternal. Be water
in the face of fire,
do not fall away from
yourself
because others have changed.

Remember:
everything
will
be
okay.