the time is always right
to begin
the time is always right
to stop waiting on you
the time is always right
to embrace your path
to accept what you had to walk through yesterday
and what you must step away from now as you move toward
tomorrow.
the time is always right
to pound your chest and let them know that you are here.
to let them know that they will hear you
to let them know that they will see you.
the time is always right to
end your silence.
to look at the person next to you and tell them to end their
silence too
the time is always right to reclaim your narrative
to tell your story
to live with wild freedom
in a place that asks you to
control not only the way you see the world
but also
the way you see yourself
the time is always right to say
I will not be a victim
I will be a survivor
I will be a savior
the time is always right
to remind yourself that you
are going to be okay
the time is always right to love somebody
especially if that somebody is you
the time is always right
to make today
the day
you proclaim that you deserve
your ideas, your dreams, and your hopes
the time is always right
to let waiting
be something
you just don’t
do anymore
now is the time,
beloved,
now is the time.
—–Cleo Wade