Be Your Biggest Critic

Be your biggest critic, if you suck admit it,
doesn't mean you're finished or at the peak of your limits
just means you have the guts and the brains to revisit
the mess ups, mishaps and the resulting bits missing
adding to your knowledge which lengthens your vision

cuz the first serve is worthless when 30 serves have surfaced
and 60 80 90 reveal a skill that just might be frightfully unlikely
and appealing if conceding to the misleading feeling
the first serve was breeding that gave good reason to stop believing.

be heeding this reading
don't end it keep reaching
 
judgement isn't found at the first
always at the end, not the middle or birth
Copyright © | Year Posted 2021

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Hankins Avatar
March 11, 2021 at 9:17 PM
Some good advice here. Always be real, I think, and always "keep reaching." Nice work, Nick. I'll look for more.
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