Falcon T © original haiku 2011 (part 2)

When you think you outshine the others, don't be jealous at the attention they are getting, just be thankful that you can respect their efforts:

a sweet butterfly
tries to visit all flowers
but forgets the sun

Sometimes i need to tell myself what i need to hear in order to keep going:

you think you have failed
but the only failure is
never to have tried

The obvious truth might not be the most obvious to everyone:

In the line of fire
step away to stay alive
or catch a bullet

You can keep being angry and wondering why you have not gotten the opportunities others were given, but it takes character to stop destruction and start building your future:

move towards the light
instead of wondering why
it's not where you are

like they always say, you don't know what you miss until it's gone:

when you want the sun
but you see a star instead
you know what you miss

Choices are hard, which one turns out to be the right one is it the obvious one or the other:

after a grape falls
we can either pick it up
or leave it to rot

it's always good to ridicule yourself, so that you don't grow a bad case of ego:

prolonged ponderings
have permitted me to see
that i waste my time

You think you are who you are right now, but if so, what if you change?

one path to follow
he who leaves himself behind
will find another

Falcon T © original haiku 2011

These haiku i've written over the course of the last month.

the first english haiku i ever wrote was:

silly girls with brains
are to be preferred over
humorless others

I was thinking about japan and what terrible purpose they had encountered and wrote:

the thought of others
having an even worse time
makes a humble man

When ever i make a mistake, or trip I think by myself:

a princes sees it
a knight in shining armor
falling from his horse

sometimes i ponder:

underneath the stars
standing by the waterside
we have stopped to stare

No one walks through life untouched by inequality and injustice:

when you get some scars
you know you are working on
getting a thick skin

an observation:

the world seems less bright
when i step out of the sun
to rest in the shade

sometimes we look but we don't see:

seeing the unseen
discovering the lost art
of opening eyes