When the bad
Outweighs the good,
Remember the positive
And know there's
Bound to be more
Someday.

Hear me, heed my words
O ye prisoners of comfort —
Contentment is
A negative emotion.

They lied to us.
With age comes wisdom?
All I've learned
Is to slow down —
Forced to relieve
My aching joints,
Squeaking like rusted hinges.

It's your life —
You cannot
Be told what matters.

They might tell us
What to do,
But it is
We who push the button.

Scorn not
The decency of others
Without first
Assessing your own.

Not all who desire try,
Yet, most who can't, pretend.
Not me, I'll act and own the deed —
Failure or success —
For this dream,
It's all mine.

It's not the gift that wins a heart,
At most, it grants a lease —
Worth lies in the gesture,
Not the things.

Love me, hate me,
Praise me, damn me —
But do it while I'm here.

Unmade choices
Cut deepest,
Carving paths not taken
Into borders never to be
Crossed again.

What we crave
Is to be loved,
Yet, what we learn
Is how to hurt —
How mistakes
Get amplified,
Then are returned.

Crutch nor cane
To help us stand,
Chute nor net
To break our fall,
Unsecured or not at all —
Say Geronimo.

Half way through
The book of life
Without so much as a clue
What it's about.

A single step
Taken back
Won't move us forward,
Fear of failure paralyzes —
What we need are
Second tries,
Not second chances.
Never stop failing.

We stare at blank walls
With our backs to
A window of change.

Regret nor repentance
Ever changed a thing.

Limited choices
May still hold
Endless possibilities.

If not once,
Then not always —
At most, ever after.

Unintended
Rarely means
Solitary consequence.

Save the rare spoiler
We'll never know
How our story ends.