Poems #38 Heart Beats in time and #39 The Next Mistake

38

Heart Beats in Time

 

 

How could she know

Life’s metronome

Set the pace

As she said, “I Do.” 

Expecting tradition

Receiving instead

“Blazing trails.” 

Alcohol made them invincible

Until they weren’t

Abuse tore at life’s fabric

Tatters too small to recognize,

Repair, or mend. 

As the moon rises, then

Fades into another morning,

Her heart pumps out hours,

Beating down ambition

Now knowing there is nothing

Except time to contemplate

The next mistake.

 

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Too young to understand that life is not static, the teenaged bride has unrealistic expectations that reality distorts at every turn. Unpredictability is not reserved for the undisciplined or uneducated. Nor is misfortune reserved for only those who abuse others or themselves.

 

As the days pass, and change becomes reality, the urge is strong to blame one's self for bad decisions or unpredictable results. Then, while existing in a vacuum of inevitability, emptiness weighs heavy with the false guilt of wrong turns.
 

 

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39

The Next Mistake

 

Why must every

wrong action

be labeled a mistake

When lessons are learned 

Experiments lead to

calculated alterations

with eyes on another

Much-improved mouse trap 

Fear furrows ruts of stalemate

while confidence applied

conquers frontiers

Rewarding those who dare.

 

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Everyone knows a story about someone who failed enough times to become a success. The more times a person fails, the closer they come to that moment of "eureka". No one is born with honed skills or talents.  Only training or education applied will lead to accomplishment.

Hearing someone say "You could never do that" reveals more about the speaker than the person receiving the negative advice. The best "revenge" for such guidance is to prove the person wrong. Receive the training or education required to accomplish your goal, and then apply the knowledge toward reaching that goal.

Learn from mistakes. (One definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over and expecting different results.) When something doesn't work, change the experiment. We've learned that from Thomas Edison who "succeeded" 1000 times to prove something didn't work so he could then succeed in discovering what did work.

Let there be light!

 

 

 

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