Try, the only thing you have to do is try,
Incentive, ambition, in you the drive to strive.
Tired or not, whatever it takes, rise to your feet,
Get out of bed, put on your shoes, just move.
If life gets hard then get that much tougher,
When you feel you can’t make it through the day
Dust yourself off and do it anyway.
Hard work pays off, no place for the weak,
Failure is not an option, stand on your own two feet.
At times we’re dealt a bad hand,
Who will care when you quit, who will lend a hand.
It’s time to grow up, you must understand,
Don’t let life pass you by, you’ll end up with nothing.
Keith Garrett
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This poem is very inspiring to a new writer like myself. Thank you.
Awesome moving poem Keith, I told someone the jist of this recently, telling her in the words of MC Hammer, that she’s “too legit to quit”. When we have wings clipped and fall into fires of trials, if we keep trying to fly, we’ll rise to our feet, and riding the waves of heat, we can soar on wings of flaming phoenix pinions in place of our torn feathers. I know it’s possible, I’ve been baptised in my funeral pyres, and risen higher with a lighter heart for it. Love your poem Keith, it’s quite inspiring, and stirred in me the prose I just wrote. So glad you have discovered your gift of poetry sir!
By the way, have you heard back about the tests you mentioned in regards to your panic disorder? I have prayed they’d yeild a clear path for an effective treatment plan!
Man, you do have a lot going on! It gives some more context to your poem now. I have dealt with insurance problems regarding work this year too, and ended up paying hundreds of dollars more than I needed to after I resigned, because of the government’s mass confusion about my finances. I have been out of work for a number of months now though, and it’s all been straightened out at last, and I have correct coverage again. I could try to get reimbursed for what I overpaid, and how I was grossly underpaid by my SSI for the first couple months after I had to resign, but I can’t afford the legal fees, and they would probably cost me more than what I am owed. I am owed probably about $1000 or so. Thankfully I had some money saved from my job when I resigned, and was able to get by on it for the two months afterwords, when I received barely any SSI. Lost a lot of respect for the government over how I was clearly mistreated in my time of need, in spite of my disabilities. The money I am owed would really help me pay off some of my outstanding bills and a car repair loan, that I am having to chip away at little by little now, month to month 😦
me neither really, just something I say in conversation, not wanting to be offensive to people who might have military background (your wordpress avatar/photo from what I see, looks like you are buzz-cut and buff lol) and might take patriotism to less modest degrees than I do… I have a lot of military family on my father’s side, so back when I was still on facebook and friends with many of them, I tried to go along to get along without raising qualms, as I didn’t know them all that well… honestly though I had expected better treatment from the government, and am disappointed they short-changed me, as I have heard from others in my same position about being reimbursed fairly and easily without the kind of confusion the government ended up having about my financial situation.
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