Expectations

If it’s true that we get just what we expect,
And to expect is to create what we want,
Then it stands that we design our own fear as well
The ghost and terrors that haunt.
If we choose to meet life timidly,
Peering out through a veil of distrust,
Then by pure definition, we are choosing as well
The disappointments we decry as unjust.
Be careful about expectations
Be mindful of what you create,
For, thoughts are inventive, intangible things
Bringing forth their tangible mates.
If it is true we are part of the Creator,
Then it follows we’re creative as well.
And the mind that can believe there’s a heaven
Must certainly fear there’s a hell.
So, if it’s true that we get just what we expect,
And to expect is to create what we want,
Then it stands that we design our whole lives as well,
Creating both fears and joy that haunt.
Be careful about expectations
Be mindful of what you create,
For, thoughts are inventive, intangible things
Bringing forth their tangible mates.
If we believe our thoughts create heaven
Then, it follows our fears create hell
So why can’t we join together
Use our thoughts to create and impel.
If expectation can change the whole world
Depending only on what we think of.
Then we could change our whole planet
By using our thoughts to sow love
Let’s carefully use expectations,
Together let’s mindfully create,
Using thoughts as inventive, intangible things
To bring forth their tangible mates.
©Linda Troxell 01/2002