Avoiding pain means giving up on dreams

One way we aim to hide ourselves from pain
Is take no risk and never try too hard.

Project the worst imagined tragedies.
Obsess and stress in paralyzing fear.

Pretend to be a precious piece of glass
In need of fragile shelter from the truth.

Of course the place this leads is not pain free.
No place like that awaits for you out here.

You rise and fall and heal and hurt and feel
And smile and cry and win and lose and live.

Do not avoid the pain of chasing dreams.
But make it for a purpose worth the pain.

Brick by brick. Do the work.