"Excuses"

Excuses.
Like barriers of senselessness, they prevent us
from doing what we must. Excuses.
They interrupt our dreams with unsubstantiated realities
made of false hopelessness and vain fears.
Excuses
to stop building, to cease from learning, to end friendships,
to neglect love, these are the excuses that excuse us
from living right, making a difference, changing the world,
our world, our universe. And it's always the same-ol'
worn-out excuses of being
too busy with work, too occupied with the family,
too overburdened with chores and tasks and errands and
issues and layoffs and unemployment and divorce and
lawsuits and damages and psychological meltdowns and
foreclosures and repossessions and bankruptcies and
one loss after another after another after another while
living a life you could swear belonged to someone else
void of dreams and visions and purpose and hope and
faith. What ever happened to dreams that gave birth
to nations? What ever happened to visions that
turned the worst of enemies into the dearest of brothers?
And why is it such a crime these days
to have a heart that burns with a sense of purpose
gliding far above and beyond this wasteland called
the daily grind? There will never be any excuse
noble enough to account for the death of the human spirit.
The people must stop making excuses
and start dreaming nations
once again.


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