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No Need for the Imposter’s Mind

You should be kind to who you are

LC Lynch

1 min readOct 10, 2026

A man sits in a field deep in thought while looking at the sky — Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Fading motivation
caught up in your faults
a never-ending
waltz

Treading mistakes nightly
rehashing the past
clinging to forgotten
drafts

No need for the imposter’s mind
you should be kind
to who you are
No need for the imposter’s mind
your doubts combined
limiting stars

Connecting to music
calmer melodies
where you will start to
see

New rhythms igniting
give yourself a chance
to take a different
stance

No need for the imposter’s mind
you should be kind
to who you are
No need for the imposter’s mind
your doubts combined
limiting stars

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I love how you used the never-ending waltz and the forgotten drafts of ourselves to describe how we hold on to past mistakes. And then finding new rhythms and taking different steps. I really like that! We all need to remind ourselves sometimes that our doubts shouldn’t hold us back.