Life is a Torn Book

Life is a torn book.

It doesn't seem like Goldilocks.

It doesn't seem like Sleeping Beauty with a prince ready to save you.

It does not seem like a fairy tale at all.

It is a book still.

You will find yourself grazing the words peacefully and then suddenly….

There is a tare, a blank page.

You don’t know what to do and while you sit by the tare grow larger and the page feels deeper.

You're scared and lost on your journey.

You want to ask for help, but your afraid of what the world will do to you.

What you don’t realise is that there is always a pen to write with.

There is always more pages to read on, And there is always more tape to fix the broken part of your heart.

You will have options many times, but as humans we choose to ignore the page.

We choose to let the page rip itself apart when we had the option to tape it back together in the first place.

Sometimes we have to move on.

There are times when fire is consuming your world, but using water would only soak the pages.

Sometimes the only options come with consequences, but we forget.

We forget the pain that rips the pages and burns the lives of others.

We want to help them with water, but too much will make them drown.

What we don’t realize, is that we can pat the fire down.

We can dry the pages, and yes it takes time.

Its hard to remember but sometimes the option is so simple….

so simple.

So while some of you sit in your brick houses, laughing at the big bad wolf, remember others who sit in their houses made of stick and straw, counting the seconds left until their blown over.

There are times we will live in both houses.

So remember others who didn't realize there was tape lying there.

Remember those who didn't realize there was a pen, ready to continue writing,

and remember those who were sitting there, who didn't see the hand stretched out, tap them on the shoulder, and pull them up!

Life doesn't seem like a fairy tale, but we can all be heroes.

All you have to do is remember that there is a solution to every problem.

There is always garlic for Dracula.

There is always a silver bullet for the werewolf,

and there is always tape to mend the page back together.