Ups and Downs
a free verse poem
Feast or famine.
Deluge or drought.
The key to understanding
life, in general,
is to realize that
fate is not a real thing.
Aim the dart
and give it
your best shot.
.
One last thing -
everyone else
is trying their best,
just as you are.
Don’t worry about the splinter
in your brother’s eye
when there is likely
a beam in yours.
We all have ups and downs.
About the Creator
Randy Baker
Poet, author, essayist.
My Vocal "Top Stories":
* The Breakers Motel * 7 * Holding On * Til Death Do Us Part * The Fisherman
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Link to the Challenge: Americanize Authoritarianism? Abominable! * Note: usually, I would put this under my 'Political' series of haiku, but this began as a response to Harper Lewis' 'Bullet to the Face' entry, and I felt I had to share my work...and her own.
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Comments (6)
Good job… so true about the splinter and beam😳.
So well written!
great advice
This was so well done
I remind myself of this often. We are all doing our best. And as for fate- it would be comforting, wouldnt it, to imagine it was preordained.
-Don’t worry about the splinter in your brother’s eye when there is likely a beam in yours. We all have ups and downs- True stuff! Love the insight!