It’s dark, empty and often lonely, I’m having to feel around and find my way.

But I need to travel your passageways.

You hold all the secrets to my success.

You do your best to blind and distract me from understanding and perspective.

Trying to convince me that without you, I won’t find my way. Without you, nothing better is possible.

I never feel this at the time.

I feel your knee on my throat.

As I crouch down, looking for a crevice of light.

I sense your darkness, clamoring to keep me trapped.

I struggle to envision the next moment, the next breakthrough, the next match, the next inning, the next game.

It takes grit and risk.

It takes belief and hope.

It takes humility and trust.

It takes strength from Somewhere deep within.

But when I am willing to look you square in the face and hear what you’re saying, this is the very moment my hand finds yet another doorknob and click, it releases! All my breath evacuates. I can finally break out into a more abundant place!

I finally see all that I need from you, I slip out from under your control, I find the doorway and I’m gone.

I’m off to my next adventure, that will surely teach me something more. So much more about myself, to keep me going.

Because the only hold you have on me is keeping me in one place, that same place, and I’m too smart for that now.

There is always a way out.

Nothing can hold me in, not even you.

Thank you for being there. I need you to keep me humble, but more importantly to show me what I need to step out into the vast expanse and next encounter awaiting me.

I will always get back up and that’s a guarantee because between you and me, we’ve been here before and we will be here again, even when the corridors get longer or more difficult.

And failure, you can try to convince me that all the doors are locked but we both know the truth.

There’s always an open door.

So let me remind you once again, you’re actually the corridor to my success!

Keep going! You got this!