rewire your mind paths - a poem

formed and conformed and transformed

Will I never change?

Do I have to live like everyone else to have an impactful life in this culture?

Is my brain physically unable to break from negative paths it has habitually taken?

Am I fated to follow the footsteps of the generations of my family?

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Naturally, I might think “yes” to all of the questions above.

But I would deceive myself.

Brain science says otherwise. I’ve experienced real change in myself. And I’ve watched people become new with strength beyond their own willpower.

I’m willing to fight for regeneration and transformation and make new pathways. And even though I tend to be a rule-follower, I’m learning to welcome disruption from the status quo for the sake of myself and others.

Otherwise, we’re just going down whatever path the Powers of culture design for us.

Without further ado, a poem for you:

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rewire your mind paths

by Durgan Maxey

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rewire your mind paths
or stay
unchanged

renew your formations

you are not your father
you are not your mother

malleable fates meet
predetermined wills

your mother did not make you
your father did not make you

look deep
beyond blood for the
Knitter of all bodies and souls

to
break form&
transform
testing for good

these pains of change are sacrifice/worship

let go of what you’re told to want

become something you
never were 

free

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Thanks for reading.

-Durgan

P. S.
Here are a few things that came to mind along the lines of renewal/transformation/formation:

🎵Resurrection in You - Skye Peterson
🎵Electric Counterpoint: II. Slow - Steve Reich
📖The Power to Change - Craig Groeschel