Duckin' Treefall

If waters off a duck's back

Is something you lack

Then you're stuck at the bridge

You need to grow up and forgive

In this world that we live

People will only give

So much consideration

When being judged by the nation

Acting over sensitive

Is not preventative

Off future-failure, detriments

Stacked up over increments

If reactions more than sensitive,

Too repetitive

Your reactions get devalued, then become your impediment

...

You're the tree in the forest disturbing the silence

You're the tree in the forest making cacophonous violence

Let go and be silent

For when you fall down

You'll be ignored by the others.

Pretending the sound

Never happened or seemed to occur

If you disturb the peace they begin to infer

That you never heard

...

Of the duck's back and under the bridge

We let go so we can let live

Our own lives and prosper

Not holding on or bottle up, like a cork stopper

If you hold onto the water the small problems are now dammed

Let go of the droplets, or else you'll be damned

When you build too much of a dam

You give too much of a damn

Pressure building

Overfilling

Then it all just goes BAM!

From the palm of your hands

Pushing past your fingers faster than sand

...

A tree uprooted from soil

A duck without its oil

One's been downed

&

One's been drowned

One's roots were to shallow

One should've stuck to the shallows

If you can't be at peace with everything people say

Eventually you'll come to learn that you out yourself in harm's way

Always overreacting, it's your peace that you stall

Off the back and under the bridge, or else people will be duckin' treefall

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Author's Notes: This poem was made to the analogy of allowing water to roll off a duck's back and under the bridge. If we try to hold onto all of the small annoyances and troubles, then we'll be damming up problems that we could easily let go of, especially if they are of no negative effect to us or others. By letting go we allow ourselves to move forward. That being written, if you allow yourself to drown in problems that you can easily let go of to focus on other well deserving priorities, you can now better handle bigger problems. If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Yes, it still does. Now, if a tree falls in the forest with other people around, why will they choose to ignore it? By learning to forgive and let go we are enabled to move forward to who we can be, are meant to be, and will be. If you allow yourself hold on, in a dire time of need, others may not be there for you if you've made mountains out of molehills before. Move on to climb better mountains. Let the water roll off your back to keep swimming. Stay well rooted and firm when the wind shakes.