This is hardly my best poetry, but I love it anyway. It's written in character -- the "real" author is Rayne Hart, the poet-empath leading lady of I/D: Shadow/song -- and, like all of Rayne's poetry, there's a beautiful duality that pairs her hope and despair, as though they were one and the same.

Really, they are.

Rayne wrote this poem to herself--sort of. It's called "Motivating My Self," note that it's three words and not two, because she's dividing those parts of herself that are at odds with each other in an effort to reconcile them. It's something, I think, that we all need to do sometimes; when we try to homogenize our Selves, it does little more than leave us with a dreadful malaise. Something to think about, non?

So anyway, here it is. Please, enjoy.