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❤️ Cleaning the Soul: Being A Gymnast ❤️

Awakening the Heart❤️ ❤️ ❤️

By SAMURAI SAM: Wild WaynePublished 7 months ago • Updated 7 months ago • 2 min read
❤️  Cleaning the Soul:  Being A Gymnast  ❤️
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Growing the Heart of Love and Light

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standing there, . .

feeling lost and soul-less, hopeless, heartless. . ..

thinking there must be a mistake, this is all there is . .

being trapped in the codes of deception, wanting more. . .

seeing the darkness, wolves, crows, and fox spirits. .

going to work, feeling lost, less human, . .

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seeing no one caring. . .

feeling trapped and dead inside. . .

becoming a teacher in a cold world, . . .

seeing my student in her wheelchair,

asking her what happened,

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during a break, she looking into my eyes . . .

telling me once upon a time she dreamt,

during a break,. .

seeing tears falling down her face,

having a fatal gymnastics accident,

leaving her a quadriplegic,

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knowing that I too had the same accident

thinking that I would be forever in a wheel chair . .

recalling having miraculously relearning to walk,

crying in pain, . .

finding myself, again unable to walk

having of the intensity of chemo cancer treatments. . .

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having my son push me around, . . .

learning, relearning to walk, to dream, one day, . . .

having a eye of thy heart, the lips of the heart, speaking. . .

feeling the pain, being alive,

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hearing angels . . .

singing to me, . . .

standing tall, .. . .

pushing thy wheelchair away, . . .

becoming alive,

dreaming of invincibility . . .

walking, knowing . . .

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❤️repeating the mantra . . .

❤️never ever give up❤️ . . .

. . . . . ❤️never ever give up❤️ . . .

. . . . . . . . .❤️never ever give up❤️ . . .

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. . . . . . . thank you, for twice in my life I found myself unable to walk, I am cancer free now, I did not become a quadriplegic as a gymnast, for I was about to get a full scholarship to UCLA,

and the first male gymnast to earn a gold metal at the Olympics was from UCLA, that could have been me.. . .

but now I have a disabled parking tag for my car,

I feel like knives are cutting into my feet when I walk, . . . though I am broke, I have found a way to be alive, to dream, and to be hopeful!

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❤️repeating the mantra . . .

❤️never ever give up❤️ . . .

. . . . . ❤️never ever give up❤️ . . .

. . . . . . . . .❤️never ever give up❤️ . . .

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SAMURAI SAM: Wild Wayne

💗 Bitch from Planet X, Certified Personal Trainer, Ted Talk Speaker, Gothic Scholar, Yoga Dude, Black Belt, Spanish Speaker. Writing Coach, Cancer Survivor, Korean Born, Japan, Italy raised, grew up In LA, as a gymnast, Jazz Drummer💗!

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