Run Back! (Original Poem)

Hi folks!

So recently, I've realized that quite a while ago, I had left my dream, my passion, my drive, and my inspiration to create a better world and a better life behind. I used to be incredibly passionate about creating and changing the world, but life had run me down quite a bit. Quite a lot, actually, but since being in a couple classes at UNC and reevaluating where my life has taken me, I'm desperately trying to get back to my old ways of working non-stop for what I wanted. Especially when it came to the Disney company. That was always a major inspiration for me, and only pretty recently have I rediscovered my love for it. Anyway, that's a super long intro to why I wrote this poem. I really hope anyone who considers themselves a dreamer, a former dreamer, or hopefully a future dreamer reads this and takes it to heart. I certainly did. I realize I often write poems as just letters to myself in hopes that by wording it like someone else gave me the advice, I would listen. I think it might have worked this time! I hope it'll do the same thing for you. Please share this with fellow dreamers!

Love,

Noelle

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Run Back!

Have you ever left your dream behind

Not because you found something better

But because you felt like you just maybe weren’t cut out for your dreams?

You lost your oomph

Your bravery

Your never-quitting inspiration to succeed

Where did that go?

Why’d you leave it behind?

Left your dream in the dust

As if it wasn’t worth anything to you anymore

When in reality it was always there

Always hoping you’d come back

“Return to me!” it says

Hoping you’d come back to your childhood mindset

Believing that everything was possible and reasonable

With nothing to set you back

You look back now and realize it still is possible

You just forgot how to view the idea

It lost its bright colors for you

Faded away underneath the cloud that is reality

Waiting for the day

The sun would return

And shine back on your dream

Revealing it to still be part of your reality

If only you would take a leap of faith

Diving from the cloud that swept you up long ago

You plummet through the air

Afraid, yes, that you might splat on the ground

But desperate to be down there again

Where the possibilities run rampant

Where creativity is the one that soars

Instead of the big black cloud that you’d been swimming in

Have you lost that dream?

Or have you simply lost touch with it

Did you lose your way?

Did you get lost in the chaos

That you claimed was simply “life?”

Life has possibilities!!

The life you claim to have run into

Was just running you away from your dreams

RUN BACK!

You can do it.

I believe in you.

You just have to try.

It’ll be hard

But it will be oh so amazingly worth it.

Run back.

Please.

I need you to chase your dreams.

The world needs you to chase your dreams.

Your dreams will improve the world.

I guarantee it.

Run back.

Chase.

Dream.