Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, To serve your turn long after they are gone,Īnd so hold on when there is nothing in youĮxcept the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew If you can make one heap of all your winningsĪnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,Īnd lose, and start again at your beginningsĪnd never breathe a word about your loss Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,Īnd stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim If you can dream-and not make dreams your master Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,Īnd yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too If you can't look him straight in the eye.īut your final reward will be heartache and tearsīy Dale Wimbrow If – If you can keep your head when all about you You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum,īut the man in the glass says you're only a bum Then go to the mirror and look at yourselfįor it isn't your mother, your father or wifeīut the man, whose verdict counts most in your lifeĪnd you've passed your most difficult test Here’s the two poems that have been in my mind/heart for the past week, for many and varied reasons – The Man in the Mirror When you get all you want and you struggle for self, Now that anniversary has been acknowledged, AND I took that ‘side trip’ down memory lane…. I’m informed, by WP, that I’ve been blogging here for 10 years – it’s actually been 12 or more since I first discovered blogging, but when I started, it was writing blog articles for other folks – and once I wasn’t working for their site, well….what a boon to discover in 2010 that I could have me very own blog – to say what I wanted too – not what others needed for their goals, advertisers, etc… I logged in to share two poems that have come BACK on my radar as I work through various relationship things or try to find a way to give another a window to look into of me –
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