More Authentic Life Poem by Tony Kavuoti

There is just more to us than what we know.

Much more,

pain will contract,

Pain will frustrate,

pain will distort,

pain will conceal,

Feeling your pain and understanding the sources of your pain will reveal,

the labor pains of your higher self don't always come easy

or in ways that are packaged and shiny self help books or videos.

Once we feel it and go through it it is ours forever, no this.

You will not be appreciated for knowing the truth.

No one will praise you for seeing through their deceptions.

and from their many Self-deceptions


Appreciation won't come from others but it will come from you.

It will come from the depths of your soul and the meaning of your life, not a perfect life.

bit a More authentic life

Not a life without conflict and much trouble, but your life.