It's time to be inspired by the revered, sacred golden eagle An avatar of honesty, truth, majesty, strength, courage, power and freedom.

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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
Aristotle

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Amy March, from Little Women

"Promise me you'll always remember--you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh

"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."
Albert Camus

The Sacred Golden Eagle

It's time to glide and be easy on yourself

Like Lionel Richie's Sunday mornings

Enjoy a healthy love-fest with your innate and acquired moorings

You are an original, a perfect fit for you

No one on the planet walks in your shoes.

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It's time to remember to protect yourself

From those who essay to mine and deplete your precious mind

Taking from you rare, glowing gems

Diamonds, topaz, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and black opals

Riches enough for a priceless, eternal royal diadem.

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It's time to rethink, recalibrate and refocus

Inside you dwells a tried and tested, overcoming giant

Capable of routing an army of locusts

Bent on eating away the fragranced, brightly-hued garden, that is uniquely you

Dripping with sparkling early-morning dew.

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It's time to count your blessings

Godliness with contentment is great gain

Envy, greed, bitterness, egotism and seething anger

Engender ugly, debilitating injury and unending pain

Ergo, provide no rest or nesting place to lethal mental pestilence.

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It's time for kindness, empathy and giving to others

A smile, an encouraging word or sharing earthly treasure

A warm, open heart is humanity's true, lasting measure

At birth we brought nothing to the earth and surely we must all go

A common destiny awaits; fast-tracked or molasses-slow.

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It's time for an open, positive, productive mind

Choose to stay sanguine and hopeful

Even in the face of a world growing e"er dark and doleful

Stubbornly believe in the soaring triumph of good over evil

It's time to be inspired by the revered, sacred golden eagle

An avatar of honesty, truth, majesty, strength, courage, power and freedom.

2023 by Irene Fowler

(Article changed on May 24, 2023 at 8:06 AM EDT)

Authors Bio:

Nigerian International lawyer (LL.M Harvard),based in Lagos, Nigeria. My career spans the United Nations Geneva, Switzerland (World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), Nigerian energy sector(Shell Petroleum, Conoco), Human/Women's Rights and Education (secondary/tertiary). I am an opinion writer for the Guardian Nigeria. My work has also appeared in The Hill, Washington DC, Kyiv Post, Ukraine, Women in leadership, London, UK and European Network against Racism, Brussels, Belgium.