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"Prudence"

        
     
Our experience as human beings
Is everything or nothing, depending on views
Valuable life lessons, gleaned or ignored
Welcomed or despised ... what shall we choose
       
Good or bad, positive or negative
Relative to our decisions and presence of mind
Shall it be with smiles and solutions
Or with an equal crowd of quite the opposite kind
         
We each have issues, baggage, history
Difficulties visit every living soul
Never discriminating for age nor status
Clinging to us all, badges of wisdom or poor excuses we extol
       
Those preferring misery seldom wish to change
Their outlook, not understood by most who consider
Life's past as an immense opportunity, grasping
Each lesson, applying, learning ... no stagnant transmitter
     
So, should life send us reeling in pain or doubt
Seize the chance to grow, gaining prudence anew
With confidence to claim the joy education brings
Smiling, sharing, loving others ... this, our time to imbue
   
     
*December 7, 2014*
     
     
Written by VegasPoet
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