You’ll have your chance to quit,
to say to hell with this
and feed it to the trash,
but not today.
And not tomorrow either.
Surely not then, no way,
not after enduring
this day today.
No, save surrender for one
black-hole day when life’s more
bleak and far more hopeless,
but not till then.
Even on that day, you may
take pause and simply ask
what’s so damned enticing
about quitting anyway,
but not till then.
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Thanks for this, Ken
A very favorite quote…
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
Peace, Marie
hi Ken,
Love the poem. Especially the offer at the end, that even on the ‘black-hole day’ you might question the impulse to quit. Thanks.
The time to quit is when you are no longer able to quit.
Then you can quite, which of course isn’t possible, at least in bodily form, because you’ll have passed on
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Lovely poem. I am tweeting it to share with all my followers – thanks!
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