Have you encountered this insufferable word before?

 

Have you encountered this insufferable word before?

In business or personal life?

Title.

Frustration.

(A lone voice whispers)

Frustration.

Has it reared its eventful head yet?

A word laced with multiply meanings.

Connected to people, dreams, ambitions, times, places, and irritations.

If so, why let it subdue you?

Maybe slow count to ten and start again?

To try to free your mind and see your soul fly?

Change your thinking and free your mythical third eye?

And after whatever you do, whenever you reach that illuminated mode

Slow smile and whisper this battle cry

“I'll constantly try to be free

To be the true me until it's time to announce my final goodbye.

Ain't no Frustration going to cloud my expectations.

For I Live with Hope and will be an inspiration for further generations.”

So now that I've subtly made you read and silently absorbed those ritual lines into your universe 

A new empowering mantra.

Let's now conquer Frustration with its twin,

Aspirations and welcome her into your inner realms with a loud cry of exclamation

Never let Frustration be a statute of limitations

Instead, use it within an ancient philosophical and metaphysical practice like alchemy

And Transmutate all that pent-up energy into Aspirations 

A form of your own inner gold

You can thank me later.

For words listened to, spoken or absorbed can have such regal power.

If we let them flower 

It is just another silent way to grow slightly richer 

As you grow older.

While trying to overcome all things at any given hour

As you look out from behind those courageous eyes, you use as your great watchtower 

Now repeat after me:

I'll constantly try to be free.

To be the true me until it's time to announce my final goodbye.

Ain't no Frustration going to cloud my expectations.

For I Live with Hope and aspire to be an inspiration, for further generations.

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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