"Letter to a Young Poet" by Beau Sia

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re-imagine your definition of results.

live a full life.
keep working in this concept forever.

let a full life be informed by all,
defined only by you.

get to the answer by asking the questions
those around you
may never believe exist.

titles only have the power you give them.
proving yourself to the external will exhaust you.
you will lose yourself in fixed identity.

you have as much writing in you
as you do. listen
for what your words are showing you.

reject the parts of praise
that will bind you.

reject the critisism intended to hold you down.
the plan is greater than any one of us.

learn to respond to the harm
in others’ perceptions
with more honest mirrors.

your craft has depths
you will not reach the limits of.

it will live in you
after hands have stopped sequencing.

how you distill evolves.
give yourself patience to savor.

the silences offer more than quiet.
touch what all this work is for.