Advice Poem by Josh Alfred

Advice

Look back through times portals into your own domain.
Immerse yourself in the richness of memories.
Embark inward to the faint forgotten shadows.
Spark a light of past desire met by actuality.
See the truth that is defined by your own relativity.
Search out, like a pilgrim, the new lands never discovered.
Try as you must to survive another day in this world.
Don't measure others, when you haven't measured yourself.
Touch the unseen dreams of passions yet fulfilled.
Grasp at the pleasures that sink away like a mud-slide.
Adventure into the abyss of yourself with stillness as your guide.
Treasure each moment of happiness, like a moon rock.
Risk nothing and be completely safe inside your bubble.
Take nothing without dis-concern, and you'll never stop worrying.
Breath with speculation when claims of great magnitude are made.
Define yourself within the boundaries of your beliefs.
Experience the scenes of multiple colors, hues, shapes, figures, events.
Dot each 'I' with a face that comes out when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Laugh till your bored of laughter, till your numb with impartiality.
Train your mind to be resilient, through all the tough times that come to pass.
Remember where the tree goes when no one is looking at it.
Expose yourself to the roses of your lusts, and sniff each one with delicacy.
Feel the emotions rush through your body like new wine.
Struggle to emerge a new person when you know your miseries by name.
Give into spontaneity, and move frictionless like an ice-skater.
Communicate your darkest secrets with someone that loves you more than life.
Fill your time with rhythm and blues, with dance and deserved sleep.
Generate a familiarity with passing strangers with a smile.
Touch each cords of intimacy, and ravish each second of touch.
Abbreviate all the complexity, and simplify all the twisted thoughts.
Life is a wordiness, emerging through material desire.
Surrender to the softest touch of the fainest winds.
Understand the melting and dispersing forces of relationship.
Surface your wildest fantasies with those who only think you are pleasant.
Emanate a glowing look for the camera that will capture your image.
Develop an attitude of care-freeness like a dog shaking off water.
Spring up from your sleep like the dandelions at dawn.
Mix your favorite drinks, till there is nothing left but filled taste-buds.
Tour all the world you want, to fill your eyes with cities.
Appear to know what you are doing, so you don't look like a fool.
Rise above the ordinary to become exceptional, unique, dignified.
Regret that you might learn a lesson in living, and by doing so learn to advise.