Don’t get all upset
When you’re placing your bets
You never know what you'll get
It’s a writing roulette
Like a kick in the pants
Or a whirlwind romance
Go all in, take your chance
Learn to dance with no hands
Cause the world keeps on spinning
Whether you’re losing or winning
Face the Sun and keep grinning
Today is just the beginning
Those old boots have been waiting
While your wasting, hesitating
Weighing and anticipating
No more need for explaining
Time is precious and short
Give your life a kick start
Let's revive your old heart
Learn to be your support
Age is not just a number
It's a series of choices
When will you finally remember
Just how important your voice is
You've hidden in the corner
Just licking your wounds
A perpetual mourner
Locked in your portable tomb
But life is for the living
You still have time on the clock
Find the peace in forgiving
You're the only you that you got
About the Creator
Kelli Sheckler-Amsden
Telling stories my heart needs to tell <3 life is a journey, not a competition
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Comments (6)
Kelli, this was like you were prophesying to my soul. Thank you because I needed to remind myself whose I was.
Sage counsel, Kelli, though perhaps a bit in the face for people like me who are mute, sitting in the corner pouting, evanescing to the point he never even was. (As I used to like to say to people in college, "I don't exist; I'm just a figment of your imagination; boy, do you have a lousy imagination!; this is the best you could do?" In other words, yep, I'm just bein' me, lol.)
I think I'm gonna need a kick today
Yes indeed! Very uplifting poem ♥︎♥︎♥︎
Well-wrought!
This was awesome, Kelli! I felt more juiced up by the end of it and that picture is great too! Fine words of wisdom, Ms!