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Time For Change

To succeed on the path you’re travelling

By Colleen Millsteed Published 3 years ago 1 min read
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Superiority is your downfall, your arrogance,

Belittling those that support you for the best,

Pushing them away, stripping them of respect,

Making them feel unworthy, while destroying the rest.

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Your words cannot be unsaid,

The damage was already done,

There’s no come back, no waste of time,

Not after the attitude you have spun.

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What comes, never lasts,

Remember that on your way down the rung,

Your creativeness is not up to scratch,

If you’ll pardon the pun.

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Kindness, positivity, friendship,

Would serve you better in the long run,

Walk away from this self made carnage,

As the damage has been done.

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Moving forward acknowledge alternative possibilities,

A change in tone, empathy and understanding,

Success can be easy to achieve,

Without the sordid demanding.

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Tempers flare in misunderstanding,

Then never totally cool,

Causing the loss in possibilities,

Compromising instead of hard words being cruel.

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I’m sure you’ll eventually be forgiven,

We all make foolish mistakes,

But your future attitude will be the deciding factor,

In any future decisions they now make.

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Colleen Millsteed

My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.

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  • J. S. Wade3 years ago

    Awesome and spot on! 🥰

  • Babs Iverson3 years ago

    Fabulous!!! Left some love!!!

  • Mariann Carroll3 years ago

    Love the message in this poem

  • Oooo, this has a very good message in it! Great job my friend!

  • Cathy holmes3 years ago

    very nice, as always.

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