What’s Your Backup Option? Poem by Anita Atina

We dream of many things

And set about achieving them

Not really believing, we can



Preparing, planning, plotting,

What we might do,

If plan one, fails!



We need a good back up plan

We claim!

So that’s what we do many times



Planning backups more furiously

Than investing great energy

In making our dreams come true



Does the fear of disappointment hold us back?

Or perhaps, thinking we're not deserving of our dreams?

Shrinking back from experiencing truths, new to us



Sometimes all it takes, is for someone

Who’s been to that enchanted garden where dreams come true

To hold up a mirror



And then we realise, often for the first time

We’re investing our energies in the wrong place

Hedging over backup options!



While opportunity waits for us to lean forward

Eagerly on the front foot, faces shining into fresh breeze

Believing in our hearts, that we can make our dreams come true!