“Wasted Life”
Digital Art by gearlock
From deviantart.com
dicing time
nibbling life
busy building
false towers
on leasehold
of somebody
else’s estate
fallow shadows
of kernelstones
germinate waste
stillborn seeds
render naught
from what might
have been save
for misguided
priorities lost
to untended
potential self
sadly subsumed
in malpractice
of pride only
realized too late
one more man
none will care
to remember

Would love to say something on all ten thousand of you but realized that a poet had said it so much better than me about 200 years ago.

You can do great things
but only if you
are in the place
where they need
to be done.

Do not wait
for life to call
nor sit at home
wondering why
your life feels
incomplete.

You can not escape
unhappy times
but you can move
through them with
grace, knowing they
will be resolved or
at least will fade away
with time.

Always focus on the solution
not on the problem.