Garbage Notes

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Franco Amati
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the worst is the waiting 
but what is it you’re waiting for? 
for the seas to part… 
for the gate to open… 
for the heralds to tell you what to do? 
you already know what to do 
you’re doing it 
you’ve been doing it 
the race has started 
and everyone knows 
the track goes around in circles 
you say the worst is the waiting 
not when you’re just hoping for 
validation… 
or some false sense of certification… 
the worst part is the feeling 
that you needed it in the first place 
to even start — 
it’s that hesitation, 
that disbelief in yourself, 
that lie you live where you think 
you don’t have what it takes, 
that it has to be a secret wish, 
the one you tell yourself at night 
that’s too fragile to be spoken of 
in the day when anyone around you 
might just laugh and end it all for you…
listen, you have to begin where you are 
and don’t look for the answer to come 
from someone else… 
don’t listen for the yes, 
don’t stay frozen… 
light yourself up


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