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Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2019-12-10 09:36 PM

It really doesn’t matter-
Just what you think of me.
Of the fear of your opinions-
I’m grateful I am free.

A person hasn’t much to do-
Who judges someone else-
He’d be a whole lot better off-
To merely judge himself.

I try to give to others-
The room that I require…
For them to mind their business
Is all that I desire.

Everyone has problems-
And most of us have ghosts-
And probably some demons,
That tend to haunt us most.

If a person doesn’t have regrets-
Know disappointments sting…
I doubt he’s ever traveled much…
Nor done a single thing.

So be decisive in this life-
While partaking of its cup-
The road is paved with flattened squirrels
Whose minds were not made up.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2019-12-10 10:27 PM

Immediately thought of "Roadkill" for a title, though that was just bled over from your ending I think and doesn't serve the true aura of your poem. Indecisiveness is never something I've seen in you.

augustsky
Senior Member
Posts 828
midwest US

2 posted 2019-12-10 11:36 PM

GsJohn, Liked your Wise Poem, & got a kick
out of the close.
I thought of "Mind Your Own Biscuts, & Life
Will Be Gravey" for a title lol,it's from
country singer Kasey Musgraves song "Biscuts"
https://youtu.be/QLsHu4gADvM

Sky~

Christmas may be a day of feasting,
or Prayer, but Always a day of Remembrance,
when we think of Everything we have
ever Loved.

Agusta Rundell~

Namyh
Senior Member

since 2009-01-20

Posts 988

3 posted 2019-12-11 07:38 PM

GS - I loved this. It was thoughtful, wise and caught me off guard with an ending that was gut bustin' funny. Thanks for sharing this one with "decisiveness". Namyh

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

4 posted 2020-01-08 10:27 PM

Agree with Michael --

"Roadkill"

absoutely fits!

j.

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

5 posted 2020-01-10 10:17 PM

John...I was thinking " The Road Less Taken"
Enjoyed the poem...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

6 posted 2020-01-15 03:22 AM

Many lines of straight honest expression in this piece.....

I came up with
"Quicksand Judgement"

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

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