By Robin Chappell
What are you living for?
Your purpose should not be ignored
Seeking solid answers to unstable questions
Accepting life’s fate and mistakes for valuable lessons
Stability is a natural human need and the cause for greed
The back of our minds dream of peace and luxurious days
Yet we drown ourselves in self doubt and excuses for lazy ways
The existence we all share and tolerate possess reasons
Circling each other day after day and season after season
So crippled by our basic mortality and ignoring knowledge we should seek
Thirsting for beauty with the vanity of surgeries
Filling the holes of the empty words we speak
We’d rather be drunk on shots of lies than to breathe the honest truth
Destroying all of the progress built, ruining fruitful minds of our youth
Eliminate the deliberation that you’re life is an illusion full of confusion
We are broke buying into a life we know we cannot afford
Straighten your shirt and hold your head high for the occassion
What are you living for?
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A prose poetry author of two published books, Robin Chappell was born in Fort Belvoir, VA and raised as what they call a military brat. Her father, Robert, served in the U.S. Army for twenty years, providing her and her little brother, Robert Jr. with the opportunity of traveling to many interesting destinations around the world and contributing to her cultural background. Her mother motivated her love for reading books and writing at the early age of three. Robin began writing poetry and winning competitions in school at the tender age of thirteen. At the age of nineteen she followed her fathers footsteps and enlisted into the Army National Guard. Once enlisted, Robin was sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier. After reporting the incident and receiving no help or support from the military or her colleagues, she underwent many life changing issues and coping skills for eight years, nearly leading her down a darker path. She served her country for seven years and deployed to Tikrit, Iraq in 2010 serving under Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since completing her military career three years ago, healing, and becoming stronger than ever; she now raises a one year old daughter named Harmony, hosts a vlog and writes a blog called The Vizzion, and is the founder and coordinator of a non-profit organization in her community called Harmonious Grace, Inc., which focuses on reading illiteracy and providing counseling to women and men that have undergone sexual trauma while assisting with their case.
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