Lessons.

The universe presents us with so many of them,
Lessons.
Sometimes we are blind to them,
Other times we think we know the lesson, and we are actually far off...
Then there are some days where we nail it on the head.

These lessons won't always be sweet,
Sometimes they will make us pucker and pout,
Other times they will calm our souls.

A lesson might appear as a storm,
Violent, dark, and endless.
But we should remain calm,
For the rain is cleansing our souls,
The thunder is drowning out the negativity,
The lightning is slowly guiding us through the darkness.

A lesson could appear as a facade.
A beautiful lake in front of us,
Shady trees surrounding us offering protection and relief from a desert sun,
When really,
Our mind is playing tricks on us.

We often let emotions cloud our judgment,
That is a fault we have obtained the second our souls were born into human bodies.
Being strong, spiritual souls, we have the ability to tame those emotions,
To acknowledge them, control them, and manipulate them...
And when we learn this trait of divinity,
We will be at peace.

I am slowly coming to this peace,
This rest,
This blunt, yet complex understanding.
That we are truly alone on this journey.
We may have many beautiful encounters,
We may have many ugly ones,
But at the end of each moment, we are simply ourselves, and only with ourselves.
It is much simpler than society has conditioned us to think.
Peace is much more obtainable than they want us to believe.
Serenity is at your will.

So will it into being.