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    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
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    • Only One Thing
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    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
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    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
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    • First I Must Wait
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    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
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    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
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    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
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    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
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    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
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    • Only From Here
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    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
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    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
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    • Almighty Gut Feeling
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    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
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    • Our Life Is a Wheel
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    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
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    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
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    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
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    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
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    • Wpatrzona w Głębię
    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Z Sercem Pełnym Wdzięczności
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures
The Healing Poems

The Healing Poems

You Can

POEMS ABOUT EMPOWERMENT  > You Can
​
​YOU CAN
        You can dance when your soul desires to,
or you can remain idle
to please others.
 
You can let others live your life,
or you can live your life yourself.
 
You can be a foolish slave
to life’s circumstances,
or you can be a wise man
who uses life’s circumstances
as a tool for growth
and betterment.
 
You can believe in yourself,
or you can believe others
not believing in you.
 
You can let your free spirit
carry you through the mountains,
or you can allow others
to keep your spirit
chained to the bottom of the valley.
 
You can accept the challenge of change,
or you can choose the comfort
of misery.
 
PREVAIL
in your own heart’s desires,
as it will often be obscured
by the desires of others.
 
SIMPLIFY
your life,
as chaos will destroy you.
 
FOCUS
on your path,
as you will be pulled astray.
 
WORK
persistently toward your dream
a little bit each day.
 
 
You CAN.
​


Liliana Kohann
©Artpeace Publishing 2000 
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    • Wpatrzona w Głębię
    • Wysyłam Troski Aniołom
    • Z Sercem Pełnym Wdzięczności
  • ABUSE: Healing from
    • As My Vision Keeps Improving
    • Death of a Lover
    • I Saw a Silhouette of a Girl
    • Invisible Me
    • Moving Forward
    • Our Life Once Lived
  • ACCEPTANCE
    • If Perfect I Could Be
    • My Wounds and Feelings
    • My Uniqueness
  • ADDICTION
    • Addiction
    • Drugs Are for Mugs
    • My Threapist Said
  • ANGER
    • Anger
    • Sailing Lullaby
  • CHRONIC PAIN: Coping with
    • From This Perspective
    • Stillness, Stay
  • CLUTTER
    • The Art of Throwing Away
    • The Irony of Abundance
  • COMPASSION & SELF-COMPASSION
    • Compassion
    • With Every Compassionate Tear
  • CONFLICT & RESOLUTION
    • •Two Creatures
    • When
  • COURAGE
    • The First Word on Courage
  • CREATIVITY
    • Artist's Plea to the People
    • A Story of a Gifted Child
  • DARKNESS
    • And the Darkness Spoke...
  • DEATH & MEMORIALS
    • Death Never Comes...
    • I Left for a While
    • A New Sun
    • A True Genteman
    • You Left So Soon
  • DEPRESSION
    • Deeply Pressed
      • Translation in Slovenian
  • DOUBT
    • Doubt
    • Only One Thing
  • EMOTIONS
    • The Guest House
    • Who's Fault Is it, Really?
  • EMPOWERMENT
    • No Longer Room for Stones
      • Translation in Spanish
  • ENCOURAGEMENT
    • You Can
  • ENVY
    • Envy
    • Lady Lila
  • FEAR & ANXIETY
    • Fear
    • I Had to Kill IT
    • An SOS
  • FITNESS & WELL-BEING
    • First I Must Wait
  • GRATITUDE & APPRECIATION
    • For My Beautiful Teacher
    • How Can I Thank Thee
    • Thank God for Friends
    • Thank You My Baby
    • You Helped Me Rise
  • GRIEF: Comforting Grief
    • Comfort
    • Today I Allowed Myself to Cry
  • GROWING OLDER & AGING
    • Relinquishment
    • The Value of Silver
  • GROWTH & SELF-DICOVERY
    • For the First Time
    • A Half of Me
  • GUILT
    • Bad Thought, Bad Thought
    • There's a Bug in My Bed
    • A Woman with a Basket
  • HEARTBREAK & LONGING
    • Gazed Into the Depth
    • I Miss You God
  • HOPE
    • Hope
    • Hopes Up High
    • Only From Here
  • HUMOR: Funny Poems
    • Ahead of Fashion
    • I Ate Too Many of These
    • Unfair War
  • INSPIRATION
    • Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee
    • Will You As Well Forsake Me
  • INTUITION
    • Almighty Gut Feeling
    • The Journey
  • JOY
    • About the Joy
    • Prince of Joy
  • LIFE
    • I Choose Passion & Life
    • The Essence of Life
    • Our Life Is a Wheel
  • LOVE
    • Dust
    • The Good-Morrow
    • In the Arms of a Lover
    • Linger
    • Love
    • On a Meadow We Kissed
    • What Love IS NOT
  • LOVING YOURSELF
    • I Added One More Person
    • I Can Love Myself, But...
  • PASSION & PURPOSE
    • Painting My Own Wings
    • Passion
  • PERFECTIONISM
    • Overthinking
  • PROACTIVITY
    • In My Desire for Satisfaction
    • From a Nation of Accusers to...
    • Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda
  • PROCRASTINATION
    • I Have an Enemy
    • Procrastination & Depression
  • PTSD
    • Frozen
    • Suddenly It's Then
  • REGRET
    • Regret (O.W.B.)
    • Regret (S.R.)
    • Sending Wounds to Angels
  • SADNESS & SORROW
    • In the Sadness of my Soul
    • Sadness
    • The Uses of Sorrow
  • SELF-ESTEEM & SELF-WORTH
    • Know Your Value
    • Oh, No! Said Big O.
    • The Only Way to Be Strong
    • Phenomenal Woman
    • A Wish
  • SELF-MASTERY
    • How Did I Learn
  • SHAME: Healing & Resilience
    • Hidden Tears
    • Love After Love
  • SPIRITUAL POEMS
    • From the Playgrounds of My Soul
    • 'TORN' to Serve
  • STAGNATION & STILLNESS
    • To Lose a Day
  • TIME
    • The Fairest Man I Know
    • Tomorrow
  • TOXIC PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS
    • The Blamer
    • He Takes My Life Away, And I...
    • Testimony of The Deceptive Lady Driver
  • TRAUMA BONDING & STOCHOLM SYNDROME
    • Breaking the Discrimination Decree
    • Stockholm Syndrome
  • TRUST
    • In Search of Trust
  • VULNERABILITY & CONNECTION
    • A Second Half of the Question
    • Tabula Rasa—A Clean Slate
  • THE HEALING POWER OF POETRY
  • CONTACT & SUBMITTING POEMS
  • BOOKS
    • A Thin Book of 'Fat' Poems
    • Two Creatures

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