The Other Side of the Coin

The Other Side of the Coin

You can never learn
Something you already know

You can never reach up to a plateau
Upon which you already stand

The past is never a place
To which you can return

The past is pictures
Posts
Updates
And forgotten relationships
Preserved on networks
Of artificial memory

You are more than that
More than could ever be uploaded
Onto the most advanced technology

It's in that complication
That you find your present
And your potential

You'll do so much more than short circuit.
You'll break, tear, and crumble
And stumble
Up, out of the rubble

Sometimes you won't be stronger
Not at first
And not for a while
Maybe not for a very
Very
Very
Long time

So long sometimes
It may appear
To be your new permanence

But just as much as you are more
More than what brings you down
More than your failures
More than your past
Your are more than your present

You cannot be more
If you end it
Before you get there

Potential does not exist
Within the empty space
Of blank pages
Found at the end
Of a could-have-been epic

So, turn the page
Even though it means
You'll have to
Flip the coin...